Tatyana Korsakova’s "Deadly Tango," a summary Automatic translate

This book is a dynamic mystical romance novel, published in 2012. The narrative centers on the fates of two orphans, whose lives are closely intertwined with ancient magic and psychic powers. The plot harmoniously intertwines a detective storyline and a profound love drama.

Childhood and youth

Danila and Selena grew up in the same orphanage. Danila possesses a striking, exotic beauty. From an early age, he attracted the attention of his peers and caregivers. Selena, on the other hand, is an angular, unsociable girl with heterochromia. The orphan’s eyes are different colors: emerald green and sky blue. As a child, she often suffered from sleepwalking. Because of this condition, her peers considered her strange and tried to avoid her.

During a summer hike in the forest, a significant incident occurs. The orphanage children flatly refuse to wade across the river due to the abundance of leeches. The boys decide to carry the girls to the opposite bank. Selena is deliberately ignored. Suddenly, Danila comes to the rescue and carries her. This simple act of humanity leaves a deep mark on the girl. The orphan secretly falls in love with the boy. Later, Selena is brutally beaten by older students, but she endures the beatings and does not report her abusers to the administration.

Soon, the orphanage’s most beautiful girl, Yana Vasilyeva, develops a strange skin disease. Yana’s body becomes covered in festering sores. The girl sincerely believes Selena has cursed her. The orphan speaks words of forgiveness, lifting her curse. Vasilyeva’s illness miraculously disappears without a trace.

At 16, Selena was discovered by her aunt, Eleanor. She was blind but incredibly perceptive and a clairvoyant. Eleanor secured her guardianship and took her niece to live with her in a luxuriously furnished apartment in the capital. Her aunt recounted the family’s difficult history. Selena’s mother, Vita, was a victim of street violence and committed suicide by jumping from a bridge. Psychic abilities had been passed down through the family for centuries.

New life for heroes

After graduating from boarding school, the young people’s paths diverge sharply. Danila enrolls in a construction technical school. His scholarship is woefully inadequate. One day, he answers a newspaper ad and meets Ed, the art director of an elite women’s nightclub called "Basic Instinct." An eccentric blond man in a leather coat offers the young man a high-paying job. Danila drops out of school and begins performing as a male stripper under the stage name "Werewolf."

The establishment’s owner, Alex, and the red-haired choreographer, Rita, help the newcomer develop an appealing stage image. Danila completely eschews vulgarity, performing in a formal black suit and white shirt. His signature aggressive number, "Tango with a Werewolf," quickly brings the establishment immense popularity and a steady income. The dancer chooses a partner from the audience and performs a sensual dance. He quickly becomes wealthy, makes valuable connections, and buys an apartment in Moscow and a sports car.

At the same time, Selena successfully entered medical school. Under the guidance of the experienced Anna Pavlovna Belotskaya, she worked as a rehabilitation physician at Professor Ilyinsky’s center. She practices Eastern acupuncture. The doctor noticed an unusual tendency: her hands were able to intuitively locate sources of illness in the body and heal severe pain.

Meeting and rapprochement

Years later, thanks to a lucrative contract, Danila becomes a famous supermodel. Her successful career is suddenly interrupted by a terrible tragedy. He breaks his spine after a nasty fall on a ski slope in Courchevel. After a series of surgeries in foreign clinics, he finds himself permanently confined to a high-tech wheelchair. The model constantly suffers from excruciating phantom pain, which even strong narcotics cannot relieve.

Selena accidentally discovers that Danila is in her rehabilitation unit. The doctor confidently takes on his treatment. Acupuncture and professional massage performed by her restore the patient’s strength. Selena intuitively takes on the paralyzed boy’s pain. She pays for this with severe physical weakness and bouts of hypoglycemia. The doctor relieves his nausea exclusively with strong green tea and dark chocolate. Danila knows nothing of her true feelings. He only notices that her touch relieves physical suffering.

They begin to form a close bond. Selena often spends the night at Alekseev’s apartment, helping him with his daily chores. She persistently persuades the Werewolf to start developing computer games. Danila attracts his former college friends, hackers Daker and Lemonty III. One night, a mutual passion flares between Selena and Danila. The young people confess their love and begin living together.

Mystical threat

The heroes’ quiet joy is overshadowed by the appearance of a mysterious stalker. During a nocturnal bout of sleepwalking, Selena wanders away from home to an abandoned construction site. On an old concrete slab, an unknown assailant attacks her, brutally rapes her, and carves a bloody spiral labyrinth into her stomach. A maniac in a terrifying mask cuts off a lock of the girl’s blond hair and whispers incantations in ancient Latin.

Danila and his programmer friends, Lemonty and Daker, find Selena unconscious. The victim tearfully begs them not to go to the police. Soon, Selena learns she is pregnant. The psychic gift that lay deep within her suddenly spirals out of control. On full moons, uncontrolled releases of pure energy cause the destruction of electrical appliances in the apartment. Selena’s physiology changes, her height increases by 5 centimeters, and her eyes temporarily lose their pigment.

A close-knit team of developers conducts an independent investigation online. The programmers masterfully hack a closed English website run by fanatical fans of the musical group "Black Gothic." The hackers discover ancient texts of the occult Ritual of Substitution. The ritual involves exchanging lives. An unborn child must die so that a slowly dying person can receive a mystical chance at healing. A woman with different-colored eyes is essential for this magic.

Danila suspects his former strip club colleague, Cherubim. The man was hospitalized with terminal cancer. The werewolf takes a non-lethal pistol and drives to the stripper’s home. The avenger is late. Cherubim dies quietly in intensive care.

The climax and the car accident

Painful energy surges leave pregnant Selena severely exhausted. A cruel occultist, realizing the ritual has failed and the baby is alive, performs the Ritual of Acceleration. The thief burns Selena’s hair, cut in the darkness. The magic triggers violent premature labor right in Danila’s apartment. Selena, escaping the unbearable pain, flees to an old construction site. Danila and Daker find her on the cold slab just in time and take her to the maternity ward.

At the hospital, surgeons perform an emergency cesarean section. Selena survives. Due to extensive bleeding, she will no longer be able to bear children. A tiny, premature girl, Nastya, is born. Blind Eleanor sternly warns Danila that the child will remain energetically vulnerable for the first six months of life.

That summer, when Nastya turns exactly three months old, the family goes to the Lipovka church outside the city for their daughter’s baptism. On an empty paved highway, a speeding black Mercedes collides head-on with their Honda. The driver of the killer car turns out to be the club’s art director, Ed. It turns out he was the one performing the Ritual of Replacement. Ed was desperately trying to save his young lover, Pete, who was dying of leukemia. Having failed in his magic, the art director decides to make a blood sacrifice in a car accident.

Return to life

A terrible impact crushes the cars. Ed dies instantly on the spot. Danila’s heart stops from overload. Selena, barely regaining consciousness, sees her beloved’s lifeless body on the side of the road. In a fit of despair, she directs all her uncontrollable mystical energy into the paralyzed boy’s chest. Electric discharges erupt from her fingers like blue flames, restarting Danila’s heart. The savior instantly falls into a deep hypoglycemic coma.

The arriving paramedics and loyal friends Daker and Lemont pull the injured from the scene. Selena wakes up in a snow-white intensive care unit. Aunt Eleanor calmly explains to her niece that she has completely burned out her hereditary gift. Her psychic abilities are gone. The girl is becoming an ordinary person. Danila miraculously escapes with three broken ribs. Nastya survives without a scratch. The dark magic leaves their lives forever.

In the epilogue, Danila trains relentlessly for hours a day. Miraculously, sensation in his paralyzed legs begins to return. Six months later, the Werewolf begins to walk again. Danila, Daker, and Lemont’s computer game becomes a huge commercial success worldwide. On New Year’s Eve, the Werewolf returns from a business trip to New York. He opens the door with his own key and invites a delighted Selena to a celebratory tango in the bright living room.