When you want to radically change your life, the surest way is to give up everything and go into the wilderness, so welcome to the ski resort of Val Caryos, where only a few staff remain for the summer. Wild nature, not a soul for many kilometers around - what could be more healing for Yugo’s broken heart, which has just experienced a difficult breakup? But from the very first days, Yugo begins to notice that something wrong is happening. An ominous manor looms on the slope above the resort, and its owner is never seen. Yugo experiences terrible visions, something that has never happened to him before. His colleague disappears without a trace. Something unknown, but clearly creepy, lurks in the forest. No one except Yugo seems to care about all this. Is he going crazy? Did he inadvertently fall into the heart of a conspiracy? Or on the set of The Shining? Or maybe this is a scary trick? But who is the magician here, who is the simple-minded spectator - and who is the victim? Maxime Chattam is the author of detective thrillers and noirs, which sell millions of copies in France and have become bestsellers in another two dozen countries. Shattam studied modern literature and criminology, was initially inspired by Stephen King and Thomas Harris, and eventually became a figure in French detective literature in no way inferior to Jean-Christophe Grange and Frank Tillier. His new thriller “Illusion” gradually and inevitably leads the reader further into a hopeless labyrinth, where monsters and new traps lurk around every corner, and perhaps there is no way out to the light at all.