About the book: year / Beginning of the 17th century. A time of blood, disagreements and wars in Rus'. The Time of the Great Troubles. It was at this time that fate brought together the Lithuanian nobleman Vladislav Zaslavsky and Ksenia, the daughter of the Moscow boyar Kalitin. They should not have met, they are too different in faith and customs. They must be enemies, for their peoples clashed with each other in a cruel and bloody war. They must hate each other, for his sister was kidnapped and killed by a Russian boyar, and one of her brothers died at the battle of Kromy at the hands of a Polish mercenary. But fate has its own rules and its own plans. For everyone on this earth. Fate decided that they should meet. Fate decided to unite them. In spite of all events, in spite of other people, in spite of their own will...And love will come. Like a blessed gift... But what kind of gift of fate will this be for them - for happiness or for sorrow? And what does it feel like when fate itself betrothed you, forever joining your hand with someone you shouldn’t love??