About the book: 2017 / Sometimes it seems that after a collapse has occurred in life, and you seem to have been brought to your knees in front of all the problems at once, then impossible to get up. On fragile women's shoulders is a heavy burden of responsibility for the Empire, for a son, for a friend... She was able to close the door to the past behind her - hard, painful, but she did it. New ones are hospitably opening up ahead. Scary, alluring, deceitfully benevolent. How can the empress not stumble in the dance of political intrigue and personal life? And having stumbled, will the forces fight for a future that is condemned by others??