About the book: 2020 / Whoever does not return home before dark will become a victim of the White Witch. This is the urban legend that frightens young girls in a district Ural town. Only young blondes are actually found every now and then on the outskirts of the city. Killed. Koshkin, a former capital policeman, now exiled for misdeeds, does not believe in the legend of the witch. He looks for the strangler, and finds the remains of a girl with a scythe, whiter than snow. The discovery will connect him with Alex Ritter, an equally outcast who has lost his former position. Alex is forced to marry the daughter of the local mayor, Lisa Kulagina. And Lisa chooses a groom herself, one who would be convenient for her and would not restrict her freedom. And Lisa also has secrets. Lots of secrets. And a passionate desire to understand what happened to her mother, who disappeared twenty years ago..