About the book: year / One wrong bet in "LARENTIAN BET FOR LOVE", and the unlucky young rake launches a complex mechanism of clan intrigues, cunning conspiracies against the Empire and a series of non-random bloody deaths among aristocrats. Will the innocent soul of Laura Al Gevorg, the illegitimate daughter of the Admiral, be avenged?... Who will be born in the marriage of the incomparable countess-swindler Gena Orti "The Magnificent" with the "marked" Marquis Holrik Van Honn, nicknamed the "Ghost of Shantogiria" for his mercilessness towards his sworn enemies?... Will the Emperor's dynasty come to an inglorious end because of the absurd mistakes of his loyal subjects?... Before you is a love adventure novel in the style of the late Middle Ages.