MINI: The Princess with Cockroaches. The Predatory Scarlet Flower

The Princess with Cockroaches
After marrying her beloved grandmother, the makeup model Stepaniya Kozlova also became a member of the Barashkov family, and they just overwhelmed her with their care! Stepaniya only made friends with Nadia Barashkova and even decided to pave a path for this beauty into the world of high fashion. Accidentally answering Nadya's mobile phone call, Stepaniya was surprised to learn — the girl's mother Alena, who was supposedly killed in a car accident long ago, had not left this world at all, but was actually in a less-than-distant place. According to her fellow inmate, Alena was framed — drugged and placed in a car, under the wheels of which a person died... The fragile and delicate Nadia must not be told anything! This means Stepaniya will have to unravel this herself. And first of all, she needs to find out how Alena ended up on the street on a November night in nothing but a silk dress and... someone else's bright pink "stiletto heels" adorned with rhinestones!

The Predatory Scarlet Flower
Why does everyone want to set up the makeup artist Stepaniya Kozlova in her personal life? Even Grandma Belka, upon learning that her beloved granddaughter was going to marry a provincial designer named Yegor, immediately got the whole family involved. Belka is unaware that Yegor is a police officer, and in fact, Stepaniya is carrying out an important assignment! She and her "fiancé" need to gain the trust of the owner of the art gallery Elena Kozina — it is to her that the traces of similar crimes lead: someone killed two people, staging a real trial for them before their deaths. The victims had nothing in common except for strange postcard-like paintings received shortly before being sent to the other world. They could only have been created in the studio at Kozina's gallery!... Stepaniya still didn't know: Yegor was not the scariest challenge. Ahead of her awaited a meet-and-greet party with a whole stream of suitors, one of whom is a herring seller, the second is a Centaur, and the third is a Terminator!

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