I look at you from afar… I love you from afar… These words are the refrain of all Fënka’s life. And not only hers… By the end, she still couldn’t decide whether fate mocked her or gave her a royal gift by bringing her together with a man whose story painfully reminded her of her own. In any case, no better companion for conducting an investigation than Sergey Lvovich Bersenyev can be imagined. Especially because the case turned out to be far too complicated and dangerous. It is directly connected to a terrible tragedy that happened eleven years ago. Back then, members of Father Gavriil’s sect burned themselves alive in their church, not waiting for the end of the world. Investigators did not rule out the possibility of mass murder—rather than suicide. But evidence for that version was never found. And Fenka found it. Still, she doesn’t know what to do next. Because a thin thread of truth she managed to grasp leads to her beloved Stas…