About the book: 2023 / This story happened in a world similar to ours, but still slightly different. Various rumors circulated about the Loza estate, located near the village of Malaya Dolina. They said that many years ago there was a terrible fire there. That there lived a dissolute, pleasure-hungry viscount, through whose fault an innocent girl died. Some said that from then on the disfigured Viscount went mad, aging in the remaining part of the estate. Others whispered that the old man was sane, capricious, and paid generously. And only a few people knew the truth about the curse that forever tied the ageless Viscount to the Vine. Melech, the father of young Isabel, is one of them. He serves the Viscount, keeping his secret. But one day Melech gets sick and Isabel decides to go instead. Who will she meet at the estate, a man or a monster? Is there a way to remove the curse from the Viscount? What secret does Isabel herself keep? And who ever said that life can be like a fairy tale??..