Horribly strange things are happening under the hot sun of Crimea. Stables suddenly burst into flames, bombs are found where they shouldn’t be, and long-buried family secrets are trying to crawl into the light of God. What is Vaslisa to do with all this? Investigate. Both the terrorists and the curse—and the golden horses once brought from the steppes by Prince Radkovsky. And at the same time—deal with herself, her relatives, and the accidental love that arrived when no one was expecting it.