Lida Fedoskina is a twenty - nine - year - old promising and witty woman. She owns a luxurious villa of seven hundred square meters in Podlipki, Moscow Oblast, enjoying a stable and affluent life that seemingly requires no change. However, a strange man driving a Chrysler intrudes into her life. This man always wears a silly smile, and his car plays outdated music. Initially, Lida is not friendly towards him, but who can predict what will happen next?
Just as Lida's attitude towards the strange man begins to soften, she is unexpectedly kidnapped...

Yevgenia Kretova (born in 1979) is a Russian best - selling author of young adult fantasy! She is a dynamic prose writer and a science fiction novelist! She has won the Russian "Manuscript of the Year" National Literary Award, the New Children's Book Award, the Children's and Young Adult Prose Competition, the Electronic Character Literary Award, and has been nominated for the Reader's Choice Award and the Russian Detective Award!

Born in Prague, Yevgenia Kretova is the daughter of a military officer and has lived in various cities around the world, such as Tbilisi, Moscow, Blagoveshchensk (my mother is from Blagoveshchensk), Akhalkalaki, and Nerungri, each of which has become a part of her. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a lawyer. Her legal experience and extensive travel have provided her with meticulous thinking and extraordinary imagination! Her writing style excels in depicting alternate universes, the intricate interplay of mysticism and realism, Slavic historical fantasy, detective, and science fiction novels.

In 2021, her work won second place in the "Send Your Story to Space" competition, held in honor of the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight, jointly organized by the Russian Federal Space Agency and LitRes, the largest electronic and audiobook publishing platform in Russia and the CIS countries. Her work was sent to the International Space Station aboard the Progress cargo spacecraft in October 2021! The jury for this competition included internationally renowned science fiction writer Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner, and heads of several large publishing houses and magazines in the "Young Adult Books" and science fiction genres! Her works have been recommended by several well - known Russian media outlets, including TASS, Amur Pravda, Russian Gazette, Russian ELLE girl, Glagol, and Letidor! In 2020, Yevgenia Kretova was named one of the ten most popular young adult authors in Russia by Esquire!

**Awards and Honors**
- **"House with a Panoramic Window" won the Russian Electronic Character Literary Award!**
- **The first book in the "Dominators" Slavic fantasy tetralogy won the 2018 Russian "Manuscript of the Year" Award!**
- **"The Other World" won the New Children's Book Award!**
- **The "Space Fleet Navigator" trilogy series was a finalist for the Reader's Choice Award and was nominated for the Russian Detective Award!**
- **The "Salt Curse" audiobook series was named the Best Young Adult Audiobook Series of 2020!**
- **Won second place in the "Send Your Story to Space" competition, held in honor of the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight, jointly organized by the Russian Federal Space Agency and LitRes, and the work was sent to the International Space Station aboard the Progress cargo spacecraft in October 2021!**
- **"The Sturgeon Monastery" was nominated for the 2022 Electronic Character Literary Award!**
- **"The House of Lost Souls" was a finalist for the 2022 Russian Detective Award!**
- **The second book in the "Dominators" Slavic fantasy tetralogy won the 2022 Children's and Young Adult Prose Competition and the "Manuscript of the Year" National Literary Award!**