After years of fun, traveling and enjoying life, Darien makes a promise to his father, the Baron of Bergtal, that he will marry within a year. Soon three women appear in his life - the naive servant Hanka, the brave and mysterious Dorka, always covered with a mask, and the beautiful but inaccessible Countess Olivia. However, his heart, fidelity and loyalty have long belonged to Nelle, who is married to his best friend. Therefore, the young nobleman devotes himself more to hunting, horseback riding, nightly city wanderings, and the pursuit of adventure than searching for a wife. Which will not be without consequences.
Will he be able to keep the promise he made to his father? Will he uncover the opium dealers who are tyrannizing the city?

Thorny Path is a free continuation of the successful romantic-historical story The Third Garden.