Ingrid Shirokova, a thirty - eight - year - old successful woman, is the general manager of a large consulting company. She is beautiful but has no personal life. Her life seems to have reached its peak, but suddenly everything begins to become complicated.
A headhunting company sends Ingrid a new secretary - twenty - eight - year - old Vasily Sevostyanov. This impeccable handsome man, talented lawyer, and ambitious scoundrel makes Ingrid extremely uncomfortable, and she would even like to get rid of him immediately. However, Ingrid suddenly encounters a lot of trouble, not only in her work but also in her private life. She finds that she needs Vasily's help to deal with these complex situations.
Vasily's appearance not only brings new challenges to Ingrid but also gradually uncovers the secrets behind her. Ingrid has to face her inner self and re - examine her life and values. In this process, she gradually discovers that Vasily is not the scoundrel he appears to be on the surface but a person with a complex background and profound motives. His existence not only changes Ingrid's life but also makes her re - recognize herself. A novel full of workplace suspense and emotional entanglement.

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!**