Hooray!!! I’ve been fantastically lucky! Me, Viola Tarakanova, was invited to live in a wonderful seaside hotel… completely free of charge! The catch is that I have to write an advertising… love novel, set right here and right now. This brilliant PR stunt was invented by the hotel owner, Marina Lavrova, to attract wealthy and famous guests. But real life has its own plot: on the hotel grounds, people begin to die. I take on the investigation—and I don’t believe in coincidences. And in this strange place, sometimes the chill crawls under your skin: my acquaintance Volodya Neumayka is found dead in a muddy pond; and right in broad daylight, everyone sees the ghost of a witch, Tryndychikha, who once lived in these parts…