Forced to leave a prestigious position, Dr. Travers rushes around looking for work and finds a good option. The only circumstance confuses him, a bachelor by conviction and destiny: only a married man can be hired for the new service. So, fate confronts the hero with the problem of a fictitious marriage... Events in Alex Stewart’s novel “Fictitious Marriage” develop rapidly and completely unpredictably. The novel “Life is Fate” takes the reader into the difficult post-war period (40s). The most difficult trials befell the fragile girls, who knew both the pain of humiliation and the joy of great love. Contents: Fictitious marriage (translator: S. Kuznetsov) Life is fate (translator: G. Blyablin)