30s of the twentieth century. The Great Depression gripped the United States, but racial prejudice still ran strong in the South. A black pastor of a small town Methodist church in Texas is found hanged within its walls. The police are inactive - the sheriff owes a lot to the local rich man Ellis, whose son Conrad keeps the entire neighborhood in fear and is clearly responsible for the death of the priest. And yet, earthly or heavenly justice was accomplished: the day of brother Kelvin’s funeral was the last in the life of Conrad himself. David Rainwater, a reserved and taciturn man who had recently settled in a local boarding house, took the blame for the death of the white killer. During the few weeks that David spent in the city, he managed to become a support and support for all the poor people in the area, and was able to make Ella Barton, a young, attractive widow, believe in love again. He did not commit a crime and is still ready to answer for him. Why? And why did fate give him and Ella Barron only a few days of happiness? The new novel by the famous Sandra Brown, a master of love-crime prose, will answer these questions and confirm the sad and at the same time beautiful truth: true love is worth paying any price for it. price. For the first time in Russian.