About the book: 2024 / Could a simple village girl, especially an ugly one, dream that someday she would become a queen? Her mother and stepfather decided to send Gwendilena to a monastery, not hoping to marry her off, and she herself almost resigned herself to her fate... But one day on the shore of a lake that had a bad reputation in the area, she found a precious crown of amazingly fine workmanship and, having tried it on, believed that everything can still change! She didn’t know then that everything had to be paid for. And sometimes the price is too high…