About the book: 2014 / Once upon a time, the poet Maximilian Voloshin found an intricate grape root on the seashore, cut out a devil from it and gave it to Lila Dmitrieva, who was in love with him. And then the inventor Max turned the unknown Lilya into the mysterious poetess Cherubina de Gabriac. And Lilya, who placed the wooden demon in a place of honor in her St. Petersburg apartment, believed: he gave her the talent to compose poetry... Many years passed, generations of residents changed, but the devil remained in place. Until journalist Zhenya Kolesnikova appeared in the city. She arrived at the funeral of her father, whom she had never seen, and did not immediately realize that she had found herself in the midst of a strange and frightening hoax. As it soon became clear, her father was in fact alive, and he invented the story of his funeral, starting a dangerous intrigue. Against her will, Zhenya was also drawn into it…