About the book: 2000 / Young businessman Rory Stewart intends to buy an estate and comes to an old house to formalize the deal. But contrary to expectations, he ends up not at business negotiations, but at a ball, where he dances with a green-eyed beauty and with bewilderment accepts congratulations from the guests on the occasion of his engagement. Rory feels like he's in another time, in another world. He himself can no longer understand whether he wants to return to reality from this wonderful fairy tale..