Beware of doing evil, for it will surely return to you. In distant medieval Spain, by the sentence of the Holy Inquisition, a woman accused of witchcraft and ties with the devil dies at the stake. Several hundred years pass, and this mysterious story suddenly receives its terrible and enigmatic continuation. “I opened a door before you...” — in the context of the novel, this is not merely a quotation from the most mysterious and mystical book of the New Testament — Revelation, but also the central problem facing its two heroines, whom centuries separate. Beware of opening the door to the world of evil — once opened, it cannot be shut. Marina Yudenich’s works won a huge number of admirers in record time and brought the author wide popularity. Marina Yudenich studied psychology in Russia and France and researched the techniques of magical rituals in African tribes and indigenous settlements of Latin America. Perhaps that is why the psychological images and situations on the pages of her works are recreated with astonishing precision and vividness.