About the book: 2017 / The main character, Yvonne Brinkerhoff, is grieving the betrayal of her former lover Gunther, who married her best friend. The girl decides to give up on her personal life. But her grandfather Gustav thinks differently, firmly convinced that his beloved granddaughter needs a family. At first he scares her by saying that he will deprive her of her inheritance. But Yvonne doesn’t need her grandfather’s money: she’s studying at the Academy to become an alchemist and expects to earn good money in the future. Then Gustav makes a fateful decision. In his will, he specifies that Yvonne must marry anyone, but no later than two months after the death of her grandfather. And then she must live in marriage for a year. Otherwise, the entire inheritance, including the shares of her relatives, will go to the monastery of St. Inessa. After the death of her grandfather, the girl decides to fulfill his last wish, because she cannot leave her parents and beloved sister Barbara in poverty! But finding someone suitable for the role of a husband will be very difficult…