Lidiya Sheveleva, a journalist for the newspaper «Vremya, vperyod!», never imagined that, upon receiving sensational documents from an anonymous source, she would be drawn into someone else’s multi-move scheme. In her hands was compromising material on Yegor Shubin—head of the legal service of the holding company of oligarch Timofey Koltsov. With the editorial board’s approval, Lidiya publishes a devastating piece about a “noble”—as it appears—but allegedly unscrupulous thief, and in doing so, she effectively ruins Shubin’s life. Koltsov fires Yegor and gives him only a week to justify himself… otherwise—death.
But fate intervenes: Lidiya and Yegor cross paths again, and this time she helps him fend off a gang of scoundrels who nearly killed his younger brother. After this encounter, someone’s carefully constructed script begins to collapse. Lidiya understands that Shubin could not have been playing a double game. Realizing that both of them are being deliberately framed and that their goal is to eliminate them, Lidiya and Yegor join forces to find their common enemy…
Tatyana Ustinova is one of the most popular authors of contemporary Russian prose, a recipient of two «Electronic Letter» awards, and a laureate of the «TEFI» award in the category “Screenwriter of a TV film.” She is called “first among the best”—and it’s not just a beautiful phrase, but a reputation confirmed by dozens of novels, successful screen adaptations, and the readers’ unwavering love.