Anyone can become a warlock—provided there’s a book. Alexander Zorich’s new novel once again tells of the magical world of Sarmontazara and the semi-war order, the Covenant of Equilibrium. Using the young wizard Laraf as their tool, the dark magicians and the werewolves, Baroness Zverda and Baron Shosha, plunge the state of Varann into the depths of catastrophe. The retired officer of the Covenant of Equilibrium, Egin, is forced to take up the order’s affairs once more—because his former comrades and friends are in mortal danger.