Ognedeva. Bridge over the River of Fire

For four years, the young Pskov prince Volga has tried to erase from his memory Divlyana—the girl who was taken from him in order to be given as a wife to the Kyiv prince Askold. All that remained of her was a golden ring.

When the Varangian leader Odd, nicknamed Helgi, suggested that Volga go to Kyiv together, the prince agreed, thinking only of his Ogne-dev. But over those years, much has changed: the abducted bride did not spend the time waiting for a rescuer—she went on living, built a family, and had children… Will she want to see again the man who once was her fiancé? And has their old love, too, begun to fade with time?

Yet Divlyana is drawn not only by old love, but by long-standing hatred as well. For four years, the sorceress Nezvana sought a way to destroy her former rival: she managed to make Divlyana’s husband grow cold toward her and herself hand Divlyana over—along with her little daughter—as hostages to her enemies, the Drevlyan princes.

It seems there is no way out and no rescue to be found: all that remains is the path into the dark waters of the Uzh, where the ruler of the sacred river of the Drevlyans is waiting for her…