The bad omens on Rachel's wedding day did not deceive her: her dreams of family happiness very soon collapsed. Unknown pages from the life of her husband, a successful wine merchant Richard Weeks, were revealed to her. It turned out that behind Richard's ardent love there are completely different feelings... Rachel is involved in someone else's game, but she does not immediately understand the role assigned to her. Time in the novel moves as if in a vicious circle, from the 1820s to the early 1800s. The author immerses us in the atmosphere of a small English town on the banks of the Avon River, behind whose quiet facades passions boil, destinies collapse, love dies and is born. For the first time in Russian!