The Coin of Fate is a fantasy novel by Boris Romanovsky, the first book in the "Niel" series, genre: battle fantasy, reincarnations. Mikhail Orlov, having died in prison, regains life—but in a completely different world, having ended up in the body of a nine-year-old boy named Niel. As it turns out later, this boy has a lineage from a mysterious race—the Nightmares—whose awakening Mikhail caused. Along with him, a mysterious coin is transferred into the other world as well: a hereditary artifact passed down in the Orlov family from father to the eldest son. Mikhail will have to survive in the harsh Pit—a counterpart of slums—while among his relatives he has only one sister, Mya. What adventures await him in the mysterious new world full of enigmatic gifted people?