If you can’t go to the Maldives, no one stops you from at least dreaming about it. And from looking at the beautiful photos your good friend sent you from what they call paradise on earth. She’s there now—in the Maldives—with her husband and her best friend. Only something is off with these photos.
Aleksei Leonidov is even ready to put his detective instincts against his wife’s. After all, something terrible happened to his wife’s colleague, Varenka Konyayeva. And these beautiful pictures are just a screen. Are they even made by Varya? Is she the one writing all those letters?
Aleksei knows one thing: they won’t come back from that paradise island as three—they’ll come back as two. A third wheel. Only how to find that “third”? Maybe the answer is to look again—carefully—at these bright, colorful, and, as it turns out, so fateful Maldives photos.