About the book: 1991 / Recently released from prison, John Gray visits his old friend Peter Ken. Without expecting it, he appears on the wedding day of Ken's daughter, the beautiful Mary - the girl with whom Gray was in love. On the same day, Ken meets with Emanuel Legge, a criminal and police killer, with whom he has some old scores. . They quarrel. Johnny Gray is in confusion, a whirlwind of conflicting feelings covers him - after all, the brilliant Geoffrey Floyd, the future husband to whom Ken entrusted his precious daughter, is a swindler and an inveterate swindler (as well as the son of his enemy Legg). Gray faces a difficult task - how to protect poor Mary, because you can’t tell anyone anything directly…