About the book: 2005 / The editor of a Russian newspaper in New York, Maria Vernik, hires the man of her dreams, journalist Jan Saaren. Happiness seems so close - Jan seems to be crazy about his editor, but fate intervenes: Saaren is unexpectedly killed, and his double ends up in the house of Maria's mother. Being in confusion and grief, Maria suddenly realizes: the death of the journalist has something to do with her.