★A new detective novel and brain - teasing mystery book about the fragility of life and bioterrorism.
★A gripping, vividly - plotted, and character - rich suspense story that explores complex and popular topics, encouraging readers to reflect and think critically.
★The rich, humane relationships between characters of different genders, from conflict to cooperation, make the plot extremely engaging.
★Amidst the fast - paced rhythm, the book is always filled with an optimistic spirit because, in a good story, the victory of the righteous side relies not only on physical strength but also on the power of soul and wisdom.
★Join the characters in the book to clear up fog after fog, where every glance, casual remark, hint, and strange object is like piecing together a puzzle, and the real surprise comes at the end. A work with great potential for film and television adaptation!

The protagonist of the novel, Alexei Dorin, is the owner and head of a large full - cycle pharmaceutical company. His company is engaged in the research, registration, and implementation of the latest drugs. After returning home from a pharmaceutical seminar, he finds a mysterious female corpse in his swimming pool, but this is just the beginning of his troubles. Investigations reveal that the murdered woman had been using a false name. Meanwhile, in the database of the Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB), the murdered woman is also found, and it turns out that she had been involved in the development of a new variant of a biochemical weapon, and she was likely working for Dorin.

The next morning, a beautiful woman named Anna enters Dorin's life, and her true identity is an FSB officer. Her purpose in approaching Dorin is to infiltrate his inner circle to investigate how his company and its employees are preparing and organizing to use biological weapons for terrorist attacks. Dangerous biological materials stolen from a neighboring country's laboratory have been smuggled into the country, and all clues point to the company led by Alexei Dorin. As she gets closer to and interacts with Dorin, Anna and Dorin develop feelings for each other and confide in each other. To solve the case, they jointly study and analyze examples of the development of biological weapons in various countries and instances of biological weapon leaks, trying to find clues about the impending terrible crime: where will the crime location be? What kind of biochemical weapon will the criminals use?
As the investigation deepens, Anna and Dorin discover that the murdered woman had transferred the formula for the biochemical weapon research to Dorin in a desperate attempt to prevent the terrorist attack, and she died in Dorin's home for that very reason. However, the data flash drive containing the biological formula has disappeared. When the FSB discovers that the place of the terrorist attack should be a football stadium - the opening ceremony of the Russian Football Championship is taking place that day - the rhythm of fear has reached its peak. After going through great hardships to find the flash drive, Dorin discovers that the cunning biological weapon is not spread through the air but through the fire - extinguishing system. At the critical moment, Dorin rushes to the site of the terrorist attack, manages to shut down the fire - extinguishing system, and prevents the terrorist attack, while Anna saves his life.

The protagonists of this book are true heroes of the times. The protagonist Alexei Dorin is a male character who thinks at a higher level, can make decisions quickly and take responsibility, and is inevitably somewhat flawed, but always resourceful and reliable, in addition to having keen intuition and animal - like instincts. The protagonist Anna, despite being in a demanding profession, is not lacking in gentleness, and under the "defender" mask, there is a vulnerable soul. The two rich, humane characters of different genders, with their relationship collision from conflict to cooperation, make the plot extremely engaging. The author Yevgenia Kretova raises important and serious issues in the book, explores complex and popular topics, and encourages readers to reflect and think critically.**

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!**