Inna Seliverstova, head of the information department of the Byeloyarsk region—“the Queen of Sheba, Cleopatra, bitch and plague,” as her enemies and opponents called her—was at first at a loss. The governor of the region, Mukhina, is murdered. Then someone shoots his wife as well—and Inna is in another room at that time.
Like in a dream, she snatches some newspapers from the table with the caption “Seliverstova” and disappears from the terrible house. In the morning, it’s announced that Mukhina died of a heart attack…
A struggle begins for the gubernatorial throne. And then appears the main claimant—oligarch Alexander Yastrebov. Inna, with horror, recognizes in him her accidental lover who “consoled” her after her divorce.
Too much has piled onto Inna at once—she can’t solve the mystery of the murders of Mukhina and his wife; her strange “relationship” with Yastrebov continues; and she feels that she’s been pulled into some terrible game—and she needs to outplay her opponent before he destroys her…