Having learned that Ilya had been cheating on her for years, Major Valeria Novikova, in a fit of jealousy and anger, ruined the brakes of his car. In the accident, her husband's mistress died. Ilya left Valeria, she quit the service and almost sunk to the bottom. Now it is she, a former police officer, who is suspected of all mortal sins: she is a blackmailer and even, possibly, a murderer! To clear herself of unfair charges, Valeria will have to find the real criminal. But her assistants will be extremely unreliable: a fraudulent neighbor and an inveterate deceiver... Galina Romanova's new book is a very intriguing and touching story about how responsible we are for what we do with our own lives. Several fascinating storylines telling about the destinies of different people develop in parallel, only to be woven into a tight knot in the finale, when all the secrets are revealed and the villains are brought to light.