About the book: 2023 / “Black Heart” is an urban fantasy with a quest for schoolchildren in modern Moscow. A book about friendship, faith in the power of good and in yourself. One day, the world around 10-year-old Dasha changes: everything on the street is now black and white, like in old films. An unknown virus has struck the earth: first the colors disappear, and then entire buildings and people. To save the world, Dasha and her friends need to find a magical object - an emergency. Moreover, do this before the villain who wants to destroy humanity. To do this, they will have to go through many tests, including unraveling the mystery of the Egyptian mummy, deciphering an ancient language, reviving a stone dragon and collecting parts of a secret map in various interesting places in Moscow (museums, metro, planetarium, aquarium, Kremlin).