Along with his princely title, Andrey receives an estate at the Sakul pogost by the shore of Lake Ladoga.
Alas, his estate lies in the path of Swedish troops rushing toward the Valaam Monastery.
Meanwhile, from Novgorod, instead of help, there comes an offer to take part in a plot against Ivan the Terrible: Prince Vladimir Staritsky has accepted the relocated newcomer from the southern frontier as a Lithuanian supporter.
The choice is not easy: either return to his cozy twenty-first century, or fight to the death against hundreds of enemies in one of the most remote corners of still very small Rus’.