For the first time in Russian! Dark secrets, deadly intrigue and an unpredictable ending - in the new gripping novel from the super-popular master of crime drama Nora Roberts.

The terrible death of history teacher Craig Foster shocked his young wife and colleagues at a private school on the Upper West Side, and two schoolgirls who discovered a corpse in the classroom suffered deep moral trauma. New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas has extensive experience in investigating the most brutal murders, but this is the first time she has encountered such senseless cruelty towards a completely harmless, gentle and innocent person. However, the apparent innocence of the victim may well turn out to be just a mask, and the murdered man’s colleagues clearly have their own skeletons in the closet.

The matter is seriously complicated by the fact that Magdalena Purcell, the former lover of Eve’s husband, millionaire Roarke, appears in the city. And there is clearly something evil on her mind.

Lieutenant Dallas is forced to be torn between searching for the killer and trying to save her marriage. And then another corpse appears in the Foster murder case...