Eagle’s Refuge is a small town in the mountains at the edge of the North. For centuries, its residents have fought only the elements and the birds; and if crimes happen in the Refuge, then about once every fifty years, when a crafty convict escapes from the mines. But this autumn something unprecedented occurred—an murder. Not only that: the head of the Sorcery Department was found dead on the Bypass Road, and three of his deputies fell into an endless feverish sleep. Alia, the daughter of one of the deputies and a sleuth-witch, urgently travels home to her father—and not only. Local investigators need any experience and any help. After all, the killer is someone from their own—one of the locals. The World of Semiryechye (“Tea for a Ghost”). Single volume.