About the book: 2010 / Our days. Florist Cookie works in a private funeral home in a small Scottish town. One day a strange young man appears in the office: he doesn’t know who he is or where he comes from. All information about him is only an entry in the registration book of a local clinic for the mentally ill: “Patient K.” Cookie decides to help Kei recreate his past. While rummaging through the newspaper archives of the city library, she comes across an article about events that she has been trying to forget for almost twenty years - the serial murders of girls. Crimes were committed on snowy winter nights... Beginning of the 18th century. The languid London rake Corky is furiously making his way into high society - he is of noble birth, but born out of wedlock, and is capable of anything to achieve his goal. He could even be suspected of brutal murders of commoners, if not for the ancient legend of the Snow Queen, who, once every fifty years, bleeds twelve virgins on snowy winter nights... One murderer - and two people, separated by centuries and involved in revealing the terrible secrets connected with their own destinies…