Injury prevented Ksenia from attending the celebration in honor of her father’s birthday, and there a terrible scandal occurred: the bride of the hero of the day publicly cheated on him with his own son Stas! After this, the lovers disappeared without a trace, but Stas was soon found by the police - dead. The cause of his death was a drug, but Stas never used anything! Ksenia is sure that her brother was killed. She is looking for the criminal and finds out: there has already been a similar tragic incident in the city. Someone slipped a drug into a good girl from a decent family, under the influence of which she jumped out of the window and died... Alla Kholod is a professional journalist. The dramatic stories underlying the plots of her books are fictional, but far from fantastic. They are about people living in modern Russia, neither good nor bad - complex, torn by passions, sometimes helpless in the face of circumstances and twists of fate, but invariably bright and strong personalities.