Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey at Frankfurt, and for the first time falls deeply, deliriously in love. Convinced that nothing can come in the way of everlasting happiness between him and his fiancee, he impetuously decides to sell his Russian estates and start a new life, not knowing that his youthful vulnerability makes him potential prey for a darker, destructive passion.
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