The heroine of the novel, a young woman, a psychotherapist by profession, learns from the television news about the crash of the plane in which her ex-husband flew with his young beloved, a contender for the beauty crown, to the warm sea, leaving his little daughter at home. What will a rejected wife do? turned out to be the baby's sole guardian? After all, she is offered her hand in marriage by a famous surgeon, an American with Russian roots... The heroine faces difficult trials: her fiancé is being pursued by Russian mafiosi, and she herself is being pursued by her ex-husband, who, as it turns out, did not die at all...