About the book: 2021 / Trick the dark emperor around your finger and return home. Do you think it's an impossible task? Not for Veronica Sokolova! Desperate times call for desperate measures. Balls, selection stages, treacherous participants - this is an incomplete list of what she will have to go through before the hope of returning home looms. And all because of whom? The betrayed under-groom. All that remains is the “simplest thing” - not to be eliminated from the selection and not to succumb to the charms of the seductive, handsome emperor. This novel is about getting caught and other delights of the magical world. What girl has not at least once dreamed of attending a ball and meeting a handsome prince? In fantasies it looks great, but in reality... So Veronica Sokolova has to find out what that reality is like.