Klesana

On the lands of people she is a goddess. In the goddess’s palace she is a slave. How will the Creator receive a mortal woman who learned forbidden secrets? Will she be punished for insolence and disobedience? But does it matter to the girl who has seemingly lost everything…

A cycle of five novels about a resourceful student who ends up in another world.

“A gulp of frosty air and a sore throat from icy shards emphasize that I’m still alive. Is Agatha mocking me, or trying to set me straight? It doesn’t matter. I’m flying, not knowing where. Just higher, further— as if through a tunnel stretching into infinity. The cold cuts to the bones, but I don’t even want to think about what might happen to me.

Indifference. Apathy. No thoughts. And I’m not even interested in where I’ll arrive or what it will look like…

Meeting Klesana? What excitement? Bah.

A marble platform above clouds and stars. A sparkle like from a huge glass-wool surface under yellow rays of lamp light. A staircase without railings, two-thirds of a meter wide, and Agatha hovering in the air beside me, like a ghost.

— Valeria, you’ll go on your own from here, the queen’s lady-in-waiting says.

For a second I hesitated. And then I went up the white stairs against a black background stretching over a sea of glass-wool. And ahead there’s a white circle, like the sun. Only it doesn’t blind at all. I reach it too quickly, but I’m very tired. Everything around me underlines how insignificant I am, how I’m—just a human. Go on, little feet, Lera—your own human feet.

— Come in, the casually issued command from Agatha sounds. — Don’t be afraid.

— I’m not afraid, I say, and take a step, barely touching the blazing mass.”
The cycle “Owners of the Earth”:

Owners of the Earth

The Bride by Fate

The Secret of the Red Iris

War and the Heart

Klesana