Yachting in Velvet Season

Crimea. Summer. The sea. Seagulls’ cries and the noise of waves. There are plenty of vacationers, and anyone who wants to take a ride on Kirill Vatsura’s yacht has no end of requests. He doesn’t refuse anyone—but whoever pays more gets to go first. That’s when a serious client appears: a well-tanned long-haired young man. He has two girls with him—quiet and not talkative. The guy didn’t bargain and agreed right away to pay for renting the yacht for three. But the moment the yacht left the bay, and the sails filled with wind, the passengers’ behavior changed abruptly. The guy the girls called Tima pointed a pistol at Kirill and ordered him to head into the open sea. Kirill, a former special forces soldier, would have had enough strength to throw the impudent group overboard. But the girls were far too beautiful—especially the brunette named Valeria, with scorching, full-of-secrets eyes…

Author’s notes: This novella has been published several times and sold out in record-short time, with a total print run of 300,000 copies. The writer Eduard Khrutsky called it “The Enchanting Daughter of the Wolf.” This work opens my cycle “Daughter of the Wolf,” with which I’m starting to introduce the reader.