When her fiancé from a noble French family confronted Dasha Ziniti with the fact that he wouldn’t live in her modest one-room apartment, she had to move in with him. A bag with books and a carrier with a cat—everything Dasha took with her into her new life. The spacious home became an island of quiet happiness for the girl, because now she was alone with her beloved Andrei. And who knows how long their serene existence might have continued if one day a terrible realization connected to the past—something she had been trying so hard to forget—didn’t suddenly dawn on Dasha…