The Old-Young Woman and the New Year's Mira-Monster

“Old Lady-Young Lady and a New Year Miracle(‘Something’)”—a novel by Anna Zhnets, genre: romantic fantasy, reincarnations into other worlds, domestic fantasy. Right around New Year’s, I’m offered as a sacrifice to a terrible dragon living as a recluse in the mysterious Blackwood castle. Everyone fears him and calls him a monster, so they try to appease him. They say no maiden who crosses the threshold of Blackwood is seen alive again. But do you know what I think? Not a monster lives in the castle on the hill—an enchanted count does. A stern, lonely man who has lost hope for happiness. Who else but me can lift his curse and bring back faith in love? Besides, I’m not the young Mary Clodie sheep—I’m a Russian transmigrated woman, Maria Lvovna—a woman of no small courage, behind whose back is seventy years of experience. I’ll restore the castle, now fallen into ruin. I’ll teach the local people to celebrate New Year!