Laura is the daughter of a narcissistic duke who knows how to manipulate people. In the last years of his life, he set out to convince his wife that she was mad and called it a science experiment, which he described in his diary. After his death, his son reads this diary and decides to educate his little sister on all the tricks she might encounter in her life and they cause her emotional suffering.

Now grown up, Laura decides to research the stories of famous criminals, because she wants to find out if there is a specific reason why a person turned into an unscrupulous villain like her father. While doing so, love shows up in a most surprising way. And can the ghosts in the city of York influence people's destinies?

Magdalena Nikolova is known to the native readers for her trilogy „New Babylon“, and with his historical novel „If this is love“ и „The dominance of fear“.