“One Cannot Escape the Fated” is Milena Zavoychinskaya’s fantasy novel, the third book in the “Irzhina” cycle. Genres: adventurous fantasy, humorous fantasy, romantic fantasy. Irzhina’s unstoppable craving for everything interesting and unknown once again throws her into adventure—and then straight into the arms of an emperor. Literally: she fell into his lap right out of thin air, and only that saved her life. And it turns out these embraces aren’t scary at all—so why was she so afraid? Meetings with mysterious relatives on her mother’s side, the discovery of family secrets and hidden truths, new acquaintances and knowledge. All of it is ahead. But is everything happening in her life because of her own will? Is it just coincidences—or the will of gods and wild forces? Can the heroine outplay fate, or is the fated unavoidable?