Do you believe in parallel worlds? Don’t rush to answer! It might happen that one day you’ll be faced with this fact—as it happened to Alexander Talytsky. There is a world, there is a task, and there is an opportunity to open a portal into it. He has to do it! Why? It’s a paradox—but Alexander must leave in order to earn… the right to return.
Practically nothing is known about the world he will have to go to. There are no maps, no research results—nothing except an approximate description of the era. The age of steamships, the time of exploring new lands and world-changing discoveries. Lands ruled by harsh frontier laws—an unstable balance between order and anarchy. Gold mines, wars of herders, and a mysterious organization hunting people and artifacts from other worlds…