Manu the Gypsy—whose lower face is always hidden under a black half-mask—kidnaps the daughter of the famous oligarch Lebedinsky and forces her to become his wife. Why does he hate his captive and her father so fiercely? And why does he take revenge so cruelly? Between him and the Lebedinsky family there is a secret rooted in the distant past. And it is not the only secret… Once, the gypsy and Olga were bound by a forbidden passion. Now it flares up with new strength—but will circumstances, the enmity between the two families, and their inability to reconcile, let them be in love and happy—or will all of it destroy them both, turning love into ash.
A remake of the Legend of the Cursed into a modern novel. Possible repetition of text.