The meeting of Catherine Holden and Jake Trelawney was accidental. And at first they both perceived it as an unfortunate accident. But His Majesty Chance sometimes turns out to be a brilliant director of that play for two performers, which can be called the magic word “love.” However, the famous master of a fascinating plot, Patricia Wilson would not be herself if she led her heroes right there down the aisle. The reader is waiting for an intense narrative full of psychologically based surprises, from which it is impossible to tear yourself away from the first to the last page. The happy ending, according to the laws of the genre, is, of course, predictable. But the path to it, as in life, is often long and thorny.