For two years, former stalker Borland has had nothing to do with the Zone. But it isn’t so easy to break free from the nets of the past. Owing to certain circumstances, Borland ends up alone in an anomaly in the center of a civilized world—trying to save an unknown girl. He has only a few days to return to the Zone and find the mysterious stalker Ghost, who possesses the only artifact in the world that can become a salvation. A team of young specialists with the best hi-tech equipment will help him. In addition, Borland will have to find out who his new acquaintance really is, how the trap was set outside the Zone, and who is responsible for it.
The truth will be shocking. The answers to his questions will cost him too much…