Twenty years later, a mysterious cult brings bloodshed again. Dark magic has wrapped the City in a web and has chosen successors for itself. Maksim Rakhmanov lost his gift even as a child. He couldn’t imagine that he would become the chosen one of an ancient Evil, and that the Magical Supervision would consider him the main suspect in brutal murders. Clearing him of accusations and untangling the intricacies of the past will be helped by an old friend, Alisa Krapivina.