“The Favorite's Mistress” is a novel about the investigation into the murder of Nastasya Shumskaya, the beloved of Alexei Andreevich Arakcheev. Soul and body this courtier was devoted to the sovereign and his fatherland. Diligent, hardworking and unselfish, he considered this to be the order of things and demanded the same from others, for which he was unloved. Only one fatal passion possessed this iron man - love for a woman who was his complete opposite. Just a forgivable weakness, but even that was taken away from him... The publication also included the novel “The Sovereign’s Scourge”, where a detective story also unfolds. The heir to the throne, Peter II Alekseevich, was secretly kidnapped! The investigation is led by Count Andrei Ivanovich Ushakov, and it turns out that this is not the first time that representatives of the Romanov dynasty have been secretly kidnapped, and the last time such a kidnapping had a very noticeable impact on the fate of Russia.