Happiness with a loved one is too expensive a pleasure for an orphan with no dowry. Sofya Greshneva keeps reminding herself of that again and again. Her older sister is a brilliant capital “camellia,” her younger sister is a thief-adventurer. Sofya herself has become a kept woman of the richest “businessman.” Her patron is in love with her to the point of madness and is ready to do anything for Sofya. But love for Vladimir Chermensky—the one who betrayed her—doesn’t leave the heart of the young countess… Will she ever find out that Staff Captain Chermensky was in no way guilty before her?