You can’t read other people’s letters, but is it possible to write them for others? Masha Apraksina, a true Turgenev young lady from a remote province, agrees to this only for the sake of the happiness of her friend, Baroness Amalia von Berg. But an innocent service turns into a disaster. Fatal mistakes and warm hearts, good-hearted morals of a noble family and dangerous secrets, insidious intriguers and brave officers, a sophisticated love affair and an unexpected outcome - all this is in Olga Lebedeva’s exciting novel.