About the book: 2022 / Fear makes a person human. Fearlessness means inhumanity. The eyes looked at her mercilessly. Not a man - a beast. Every cell is filled with hatred. Run! Fall in love? Journalist Lika goes to a provincial town to write a laudatory article about the local oligarch. But the terrible events unfolding one after another darken the picture. Trying to unravel the tangle of crimes, Lika herself becomes a victim of one of them. She is a hostage. Finding herself torn out of her gentle and cozy world, she finds herself in the very center of a life so unusual and wrong for her. A life in which all-consuming love, friendship, betrayal, truth and lies exist together. She will have to understand herself and figure out whether the beast with eyes blazing with anger is so terrible.…