My Home is Someone Else's Fortress

After running into a neighbor she barely knew and exchanging a couple of phrases with her, Tonya still didn’t learn that the woman’s presence saved her life. They went out of the elevator together, continuing their conversation—and then the killer didn’t have time to shoot: the door to Tonya’s apartment shut…

The darkness outside the window suggested thoughts of something frightening and unreal, and the phone call also seemed alarming to Tonya. When she opened the door, she gasped, seeing her messy, not-at-all-like-herself friend Lila. Lila is being blackmailed, and she urgently needs a lot of money… At the ATM there wasn’t a line—only some girl was withdrawing a rather significant amount. When she turned around, Nikolay Korsun recognized his former classmate Tonya. He hardly remembered her for many years, but now he realized that he had never forgotten her. Korsun had no idea what problems she had—yet without hesitation he was ready to take on solving them…