Donovan Creed is a former CIA agent, terrorist hunter, and now a highly skilled assassin. This is a man with nerves of steel. He is ruthless and acts strictly within the framework of the contract. Until his heightened sense of justice is touched to the quick... The vacation of Donovan Creed and his friend Rachel is in full swing. They can afford the most expensive resorts and the most luxurious hotels, but somehow they end up in the small seaside town of St. Albans. And, unexpectedly for themselves, they agree to become a cook and waitress in a hotel that is on the verge of ruin. What is the reason for such an extravagant decision? Just in the desire to live an unusual new life and help the desperate hotel owner? Or is it all about a strange feeling of complete, absolute happiness that can suddenly seize every resident of this town and just as suddenly disappear?.. Creed considers both of these reasons important. And he also wants to understand what relation a girl named Libby Vale, who disappeared a year ago, has to everything that is happening in the city...

Twelve months before...

Summer 1710 from the Nativity of the Lord our...