The first book in the series introduces us to the timeless Anya Balanchine, a courageous sixteen-year-old girl with the soul of a girl and the responsibility of an adult woman. Now she is eighteen, her life is more bitter than sweet. She lost her parents and grandmother, and spent her best school years in trouble with the law. Perhaps the most difficult decision was the decision to open a nightclub with her inveterate enemy Charles Delacroix, which cost her relationship with Vin.

Nevertheless, Anya is a fighter by nature. She put the loss of Vin aside and focused on her work. Despite everything, the club achieves enormous success, Anya feels at ease and there are no signs of trouble. But after a mistake in judgment, Anya fights for her life and is forced to reckon with her choices, and for the first time in her life she has to let other people help.