Natalia Zemskova is a journalist and theater critic. In 2010, the Astrel publishing house (St. Petersburg) published her novel Childbearing Age, which went through several reprints. The action-packed novel “City on the Styx” is the second book by the writer. The young heroine dreams of getting married and leaving the regional center crowded with new buildings. But before her eyes, the secrets and legends of a large provincial city in the center of Russia, the fate of talented people living next to her, come to life. The novel “City on the Styx” is about the artist’s choice – province or capital? About what sooner or later a modern person has to pay, who does not believe in God or the devil, but only in his own gift - for every wrong step.