Kateryna Kukhar

Par-delà les hautes Montagnes Noires se cache un royaume peuplé de créatures fantastiques. Depuis des siècles, elles protègent du monde des hommes une source de vie éternelle aux pouvoirs infinis. Jusqu’au jour où Naya, la nouvelle élue de cette forêt enchantée, rencontre Lucas, un jeune humain égaré dans les montagnes. À l’encontre des règles établies depuis des millénaires, ils vont se revoir, sans prendre garde aux conséquences qui s’abattront sur le royaume. L’aventure ne fait que commencer.

The plot revolves around the controversial relationship between maid Stefania Chornenko and blueblood Adelia Anger against the backdrop of the provincial Austro-Hungary in 1900. Both Stefania’s parents and Adelia’s mother died during the fire. Adelia’s father adopted neighbors’ orphan. Girls grew up together to become as close as sisters, though Stefania served as the maid. This attachment develops into love-trap: on one hand full of mutual manipulation and jealousy, but equally based on сare and devotion. The illusion of balance is broken when Adelia marries sculptor Petro. Everything gets even more complicated when Joseph, the old love interest of Stefa, returns to town as the priest and married man. Illusions are destined to evaporate and reality comes into focus.