About the book: 2007 / Declaration of love, kisses, secret wedding - and now Irena Sokolskaya is the wife of Count Ignatius Lavrentyev! All that’s left is to receive the priest’s blessing and live like a real family. But what is it? No one greets Ignatius in a proper manner at the estate. Moreover, it turns out he is... a serf! And that means his wife too. To wash away the shame, Lavrentiev kills himself. Irena tries to escape, but an ambush awaits her on the Devil's Bridge. Or not an ambush, but fate itself - in the form of a beautiful stranger, whose embrace seemed dearer to her than anything else in the world…