The Sixth Watch took place. With the departure of the Twofold deity, which has for ages watched over compliance with the Great Treaty, reality of the Others and the human world changed. The Twilight, shaken by the Highest Magic, is still unstable; the confrontation between Darkness and Light has reached the limit. One more step—and even an ordinary walk along the capital’s streets will become unsafe. And under these circumstances the Light operative Nikita Surnin, investigating the death of an elderly woman, is forced to cooperate with the Dark Others and with the Light hermits—because the rest of the Watchers are in no hurry to help him. Everything is new and strange in the altered Twilight…