On the brink of death, Tatyana Zakharzhevskaya—now Lady Morven—asked Heaven and Hell for a one-year postponement in order to set her earthly affairs in order. She must untangle a tangle of other people’s destinies: Nil Barentsev, whom she loved with a passion she had never felt before; Nil’s son, raised by Tatyana, the heir to two enormous fortunes; Tatyana’s daughter, Nyuta, an international swindler, fearless and playfully flirting with danger.
Tatyana had never thought that her carefully constructed plan might not work…
Her calm life as Larina-Rosen once again derails, when her husband ends up in prison accused of corrupting a minor…