About the book: 2016 / “Get a tattoo - and your life will change!” - the advertising poster promised. Sasha, an ordinary student girl who lacked adventure, believed it and entered the salon. And indeed: after she became the owner of a beautiful tulip on her shoulder, her life changed - a casual acquaintance turned out to be an American professor and suggested she go to study in America. Sasha miraculously passed the tough selection process and received a grant. While studying English in the library, she met a handsome guy. Everything was fine, the tattoo helped! But the changes continued: a banal health certificate turned into a death sentence, Sasha’s parents kicked her out of the house, her friends turned away, and the most important person for her became an adventurer and card sharper, whom she accidentally saved from bandits…