The Deserted. The One-Eyed House

Pierre-a-Metal is a city cut from stone and metal. Its streets wind between silent slums, noisy taverns, and houses brought to life by loneliness—without people. Their unique power is their gift; their service is a curse. The orphaned sisters Gorder find themselves in a strange city and get pulled into a dangerous investigation. They are the keys to the solution—locked inside the people-free world. And if the world is so cruel, can you trust strangers who offer a helping hand?
Luten is an obsessed caretaker of the people-free. Domograf is an enthusiastic researcher and careerist with an impeccable reputation. The tavern owner is a joker, hero of gossip and dreadful legends. The city is steeped in secrets and conspiracies: killers, traitors, influential rich men, religious fanatics… It’s time to challenge them.
The first novel in the “People-Free” cycle by Zhenya Yurkina. “People-Free” is a dark and exquisite world of a conditional nineteenth—early twentieth century: a small town that keeps dark secrets, and two sisters forced to stand against the misfortunes that have fallen on them amid the creak of living walls. Adventure, detective work, the search for home, the search for answers—this is “People-Free.”