The long-awaited continuation of the story about the brothers started by the novels “The Secret Warrior” and “Tsar’s Knight”! A second decade has the winter that has struck the world in its grip. The blizzards rage harder, the frosts are more merciless—yet people live, wander, and defend each their own truth… The young tsarevich goes through new trials, proving that he deserves to rule his ancestral city, Shegardai.
Will he be able to take along his sister, whom they’ve already started looking for a profitable match for?
Meanwhile, the true heir to the throne who has become a knight, after being wounded, is left to recover in a village. His identity has been revealed, and the voivode orders him to go to Shegardai to finally clarify the order of succession. But then come unexpected news. In a faraway land, their allies have gotten into trouble, and the voivode rushes to help them—will he make it in time?
And in Shegardai itself, a tradesman buys a slave—a limping cripple, almost unable to speak. But for some reason, after that, street musicians begin playing astonishingly beautiful songs…