Set of 2 books by Katya Kachur: Favorite of the Era + Bitter Angel

Set of 2 books by Katya Kachur: "Favorite of the Era" + "Bitter Angel"! "Favorite of the Era": Rodion was loved for his intellect, beauty, and abilities. His brother Ilyusha was loved just for being there. From Rodion, they expected actions and responsibility. Ilya was to be saved, fed, and pampered - even if he would leave without looking back in a minute. When the brothers were children, something awful happened. Ilya was kidnapped and held for several days by a half-mad neighbor, an old woman nicknamed Era. Then Ilya was returned home, and life went on as usual. Many years later, an incomprehensible connection with the mad old woman from childhood will reveal itself. And for the secret that neither time nor fire could bury, someone will have to pay with their life. "Bitter Angel": Surgeon Vadim Kazachenko operates on the famous writer Sergey Grekov and brings to light a stone that turns out to be... a diamond with a figure of an angel inside. There is no scientific explanation for the find, and to avoid being labeled as crazy, the young doctor does not tell his colleagues or the patient about what happened. Vadim keeps the stone to himself — and he begins to inexplicably get lucky. A profession that barely allowed him to make ends meet now brings in substantial income, Kazachenko becomes a well-known surgeon, and even the beautiful neighbor Margo reciprocates his feelings... The life of writer Grekov, on the contrary, falls to pieces — and he drags everyone around him into the abyss. Step by step, the mysterious stone, whose history goes back to the distant medieval past, treacherously travels from one character in the novel to another, drawing its owners into a strange and cruel game. And each subsequent owner must make a choice. The only problem is that the price of this choice turns out to be unreasonably high...