This year proved extremely difficult for me, Baron Vuldij, descendant of Suryin the Cursed. I lost a close person, gained many enemies, quarreled with the Inquisition once again, and financial troubles never stopped. However, the most serious trials were still ahead. One winter evening, a blizzard raged... How could I refuse help to three frozen people who knocked at the gates of my castle? But I should have—because they immediately started strange and dangerous games of hide-and-seek. If I’d known their arrival would bring so much trouble, I would have driven all the local ghosts after them!