A world very much like our own—except that the dead sometimes return to take the living, and ruthless chugaists hunt them. There are also witches in that world, and an inquisition that destroys them. Still, everything isn’t quite so fatal: an uninitiated witch only needs to register—to come under supervision. As for initiated witches—there is no mercy; no one will show them compassion. But then again, they don’t pity us either.
Only the red-haired witch Ivga doesn’t want to live under supervision. She’s a normal woman and she wants love. And she will find it. With Claudius Starzha, the Great Inquisitor. Any witch feels ill just from his presence. At first, she does too…