Only twelve steps separated Kat from the long-awaited meeting with Kat’s mysterious admirer. Twelve steps, twelve steps, twelve strokes of the midnight clock... When they fell silent, Kat stepped onto the threshold of the bedroom and saw HIM - handsome, slender and... dead! He lay in bed with a crushed head and could no longer fulfill his promise to give her a magical night, and then a magical life... That's what Kat thought, but she was wrong - the one who promised her this turned out to be alive. But he was not handsome, but ugly and looked not like the man of dreams, but like a monster, the kind that beauties love only in fairy tales. Love or ruin! Kat didn’t want either one or the other, but... When she fell in love, she realized that she could also destroy her. And now she must not only save him, the man of her dreams, from death, but also stay alive herself...