If life has driven you into a corner, make colorful lanterns out of paper, decorate this very corner with them and live happily. Evlampia Romanova is not afraid of problems, but sometimes there are so many of them that even the Lamp gets lost. Irina Galkina came to Max Wolf’s office and stated that her daughter had disappeared. The client called Alice baby, baby, child. But it turned out that the “baby”... is twenty-four years old and works as a teacher at a college. The mother literally led her daughter by the hand everywhere. So, maybe Alice ran away from her mother’s annoying guardianship? Detectives began searching and found out that on the eve of her disappearance, the girl was seen together with their college student Nikita Rakitin: the young people went down to the basement of the educational building. Nikita is an artist, a well-known children's book illustrator in England, who recently returned to Russia. But his father is serving time in prison for murder. Wolf's team began to study the past of the elder Rakitin, and then such skeletons began to fall from all the closets... Daria Dontsova is the most popular and sought-after author in our country, the favorite of millions of readers. More than 200 million copies of her books have been sold in Russia. Her work fills hearts and souls with light, optimism, joy, and confidence in the future! “Dontsova is an incredible hard worker! I don't know any other writer who works so hard. I respect her as an example of hard work as a writer. Women need psychological support and receive it from Dontsova. I myself read several of Dontsova’s novels at one time. It is read by very different people. And very busy business women who need to turn off their heads for a while, and housewives who have a 15-20 minute break between dropping off and picking up their children.” – Galina Yuzefovich, literary critic