The meeting between Catherine Holden and Jake Trelawney was an accident. At first, both of them were considered to be bad luck.... But His Majesty Chance sometimes turns out to be the brilliant director of that play for two performers, which can be called the magic word "love". However, the famous master of the fascinating plot Patricia Wilson would not be herself, if she led her heroes immediately to the crown. The reader is waiting for a tense, full of psychologically justified surprises narrative, from which it is impossible to break away from the first to the last page. A happy ending, according to the laws of the genre, is of course predictable. But the path to it, as in life, is often long and thorny ..