A Hollywood-scale novel. A well-known publisher, Alexander Murashev, has his wife disappear. Everything suggests Alina left her husband herself… But in reality she is held captive by former friends who decided to profit from her wealthy spouse! Driven by greed, amateur schemers are extremely dangerous—they’ll do anything for money. Only one of them, Philippe, the victim’s former lover of kidnapping—has another goal: to make Alina belong to him entirely and completely…
This is a novel with a double bottom—double ending, unusual and unexpected for the reader. “The Bare Queen” was a success abroad. In France in 2000, the hugely popular publisher “Robert Laffont” released a remake of this novel under a different title, which became the best-selling bestseller—published in 30 countries worldwide. The rights to film it were bought by Steven Spielberg. In 2005, the world premiere of the film “Between Heaven and Earth” took place.