For the first time in Russian - a new psychological thriller from the author of the phenomenal bestseller “The Guardian”! Full of skeletons in the family closet, a fascinating story about betrayal, blackmail and murder! The Welford couple have not a life, but a fairy tale: complete prosperity, a successful marriage, a child to behold, a vast estate on the “Gold Coast” near New York. But this tale has a flip side: Tom Welford, a successful financier and owner of Edgewater, subjects his young wife Karen to sophisticated, hidden abuse. Wanting to start life from scratch and save four-year-old Ned, who has lost the ability to speak as a result of psychological trauma, Karen turns to loan shark Seraphim for a loan, who immediately begins to masterfully blackmail her and her lover, architect Joe Haynes. Fueled by conflicting passions, a series of ominous events inexorably draws the heroes to a paradoxical denouement...