A series of terrible murders - ruthless, insidious, carefully planned and requiring considerable skill - shakes the narrow world of an elite society, which has long been fenced off from life with an impregnable fence. In the life of these people there was everything that gave every reason to compare it with paradise. This paradise was by no means given to them by anyone. They built it themselves, brick by brick, building a fence and planting future tabernacles in the heavenly land with thin stems. When they decided that their own, personal paradise had finally been erected on this sinful earth, it suddenly turned out that a terrible creature had settled in it - a cunning, resourceful , bloodthirsty. Strangers were not allowed here, and only one thing remained - the predator was born and nurtured here, he is nothing more than a fiend of a man-made paradise. Marina Yudenich is one of the most popular writers in Russia today, whose first novels sold out in unprecedented numbers. And in the new novel she remains true to herself: the feeling of the constant presence of unspoken witnesses and messengers of eternity does not leave the reader until the last page, until the terrible secret of the fiend is revealed. And then the thought quietly comes: heaven and hell, the Fall and feat - don’t they coexist in our souls, in eternal struggle, but also in eternal unity? And if you think about it, a terrible monster, broken free, devours only a select few...