About the book: 2017 / Holland, 1630. The country is gripped by a passion for tulips. Beautiful flowers suddenly become more valuable than gold. People go bankrupt and make huge fortunes on tulips. To take possession of the precious bulbs, the residents of Amsterdam are ready to do anything - deception, forgery, theft and... even murder. It is on this general obsession that the talented but poor artist Jan van Loo, madly in love with Sophia, the young beautiful wife of a rich old man, is trying to pull off a clever scam merchant. However, very soon events take a dangerous turn…