Igor Andreevich Knyazev is a well-known cardiac surgeon, the hero of medical gossip, and the object of envy among his colleagues. Legends say he has a gift for pulling patients back from the edge of death. And on top of that—he’s self-assured, harsh, an egotistical jerk, and simply a dazzling man, whom women follow with a touch of dizziness and tachycardia. He doesn’t answer unfamiliar calls, and I had absolutely no chance of getting through to him at all! I wasn’t supposed to tell him about the emergency surgery, and he somehow couldn’t listen to me carefully—yet unexpectedly agreed to come. Then I thought that I’d unbelievably gotten lucky. But I was cruelly wrong…