“Soul Collector” is a novel by Mikhail Lipark, the second book in the eponymous cycle. Genre: action sci-fi; alternate history; boyar-anime; time-travel/portal fiction. Konstantin Rakitsky gets a chance to live his life again—in the body of a ten-year-old boy. In the alternative 90s, where there’s magic, aristocrats, and a world behind the veil. Returning to the past, he looks anew at old friends and classmates. He begins building a business. He realizes he has an unusual hereditary gift that must be developed. Now he has to find out what kind of girl-ghost the Soul Collectors are, take revenge on his main rival on the football field, learn what happened to his mother, and try to save his sister. Will he be able to develop the business and protect the family while having such powerful enemies?