Dreams of a Better Life

Lena’s husband left her unexpectedly. Not just left—he went to her best friend! But that was not all: Rōma and Kristina took away her apartment, offering in return a wreck outside the city!.. Lena was so crushed by the betrayal of the closest people that she agreed to this clearly unequal exchange. Besides, the place where her new home was turned out to be wonderful: there was a river nearby and a forest. In the forest, Lena met her new neighbor, Nikolai, right away feeling sympathy for him.

But what is this strange man hiding—who prefers to talk with forest animals rather than people? Thoughts about that were interrupted by… a visit from the police! As it turned out, one of the richest and most influential residents of the settlement, the businessman Leonid Chagin, had been murdered. And it happened right after he left Lena’s house in a rage because she wouldn’t give in to his advances…