About the book: year / – What did you bring from Russia? Vodka? Balalaika? – the first thing my friend asked when I returned to Marseille. “A bear,” I sighed. Taking my answer as a joke, Lucy doesn’t even suspect who I’m keeping in the basement of our family castle, three kilometers from the coast, on the island. And my prisoner really huge and strong like a bear. But stubborn as a donkey! Just one word separates him from freedom! But he is persistently silent!