About the book: 2004 / Joan in evening dress, with one handbag in her hands, runs from the house, fleeing her sadistic husband. Her situation is desperate: she doesn’t know where to go or what to do. But Her Majesty Chance comes to the rescue. He brings a young woman to the house of famous film screenwriter Howard Eastman, who is raising his daughter alone. Joan temporarily works for this family as a nanny. Howard realizes that something is wrong here; his guest doesn’t look too much like a professional nanny. And then one day in the newspaper he saw a photograph of Joan, who was wanted by her husband.…