England. Edwardian era. Cold winter of 1914. Rowena Buxton tries to find solace for her broken heart, make amends for the mistakes made in the past, and unexpectedly throws in her fate with a person completely unsuitable for her. Her younger sister Victoria despises class prejudices, hates social events, and the thought of marriage makes her furious. But all her reasoning falls apart like a house of cards when she suddenly meets love. Prudence Staite grew up and was raised with the Buxton sisters, however, after learning the secret of her birth, she left Summerset Abbey and married a poor student. Now she drags out a miserable existence in a squalid London apartment and thinks every day about whether she has made a terrible mistake. The bonds that bind these three women are stronger than the bonds of blood. They challenge high society in the years when the clouds of the coming war are gathering over England. For the first time in Russian!