Victoria Paley is the author of action-packed novels. But she did not imagine that her life, too, would one day become like a detective story... The evening in memory of her friend Evgenia, who died a year ago, turned into a series of inexplicable murders. The country house where those who cared about Zhenya gathered was cut off from the world - everyone had lost their mobile phones, and a blizzard was raging outside the windows... Victoria had to forget about books for a while and look for the killer, who was somewhere very close, but the motives for his actions completely inexplicable. It turns out that almost all the men in the house were once connected with Evgenia in a very clear way, including Victoria’s lover Kirill. But now is not the time for jealousy and showdown, because there are fewer and fewer guests left...