A Hot Northern Summer

Taisiya Voznesenskaya has an unsuccessful marriage behind her, a career rise—but not a hint of ordinary feminine happiness. Everything changes when, instead of a plane, she ends up aboard an icebreaker. Now she is headed not to Europe, but to a polar weather station in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, and at the sight of the stern, bearded head of the station, the secular lioness’s cold heart unexpectedly starts beating faster… Taisiya Voznesenskaya always gets what she wants, but Fyodor Radov is stubborn as a thousand devils. The station chief’s days are scheduled hour by hour; the routine hasn’t changed for years. But the moment this woman steps ashore on a polar island, the well-oiled order falls apart completely. So who will give in first? The fourth book in the cycle “Modern Fairy Tales of Love.” The main heroine is the mother of Mark Bestuzhev from the novel “The Ideal Cad” (AST, 2020).