Dear Reader!

If you are holding this book in your hands, I can hope that you will find a few minutes to leaf through it and then, perhaps, read it. After all, we are contemporaries, and we share many common themes.

I invite you to step into the world of my characters and immerse yourself in their lives, filled with dreams, visions, and reveries, to experience extraordinary events alongside them.

The main characters of this book are ordinary people in unusual circumstances. Strange things happen to them; they receive obscure signs that awaken a fear of the unknown, the supernatural, the inexplicable. But through the haze of mysterious phenomena, reality always emerges.

In these stories, the supernatural is meant to open a person’s eyes to their very real problems—character, lifestyle, relationships with others—and pushes them to reconsider deep contradictions, self-deception, and the way they live.

Fairy tales and magic are inseparably linked to our dreams, which are always beautiful and border on the magical. This collection contains tales of love, tenderness, and miracles—of all that makes life bright and interesting. But not only magic and imagination help fulfill one’s dreams; character and willpower play a role as well.

I wish you, my dear reader, to immerse yourself in this both magical and real world and make your dream come true.

With love,

Heliya Alekseeva