Agne is an ordinary witch in a god-forgotten village on the cliffs of Normandy, keeping a quiet, ascetic way of life. Everything changes when an eleven-year-old Bohdanka appears in the witch’s house—an gifted girl from southern shores who doesn’t yet know what power she holds and what it is given for. To get even a small portion of Bohdanka’s magic, all evil forces—from the smallest to the greatest—wage a bloody war in which human souls are ground up. Driven by dark powers and by their own kin, Agne and Bohdanka set out on a dangerous journey through medieval Europe, to the southern lands of the Kyivan Principality, to seek help from the one who knows…