Hurray!!! I'm incredibly lucky! I, Viola Tarakanova, was invited to stay in a beautiful hotel on the seashore... completely free of charge! True, I have to write an advertising... romance novel, the action of which takes place here and now. This brilliant PR move was invented by the hotel owner Marina Lavrova to attract rich and famous clients. But real life offers its own plot: people begin to die on the hotel grounds. I take on the investigation and don’t believe in accidents. And in this strange place, sometimes a chill creeps through the skin: either my friend Volodya Neumyvaikin is found dead in a mud lake, or right in the middle of the day the ghost of the witch Tryndychikha, who once lived in these places, appears to everyone...