About the book: year / On New Year's Eve I am sacrificed to a terrible dragon, a recluse living in the mysterious Blackwood Castle. They fear him and call him a monster, so they try to appease him. They say that not a single girl who crossed the threshold of Blackwood was ever seen alive again. But you know what I think? It is not a monster who lives in a castle on a hill, but an enchanted count. A stern, lonely man who has lost hope of happiness. Who else if not me to remove the curse from him and restore faith in love? Moreover, I am not the young sheep Mary Claudie, but the Russian hit-and-miss Maria Lvovna - a woman of no timidity, who has seventy years of experience behind her. I will restore the castle, which has fallen into disrepair. I will teach the local people to celebrate the New Year!