A mistake of her early years nearly cost Zara her life, and now she is in debt to the gods. Five years of obedient service are behind her, and she faces her final assignment. But fate is sly, and the past returns exactly when it seems that the cherished goal is already within arm’s reach. It would seem a standard task—yet doubts begin to overwhelm her from the very first days, becoming deeper with every hour.
Who is a friend, and who is an enemy? Who is a colleague, and who is a killer?
First love for a teenager, mysteriously teaching at the academy? A mysterious rector-incubus, in the past a professional killer? Or perhaps a smiling healer-drauk, whose lower half of the body makes for gloomy thoughts? Or maybe it’s a handsome orc hiding clan tattoos under a tightly laced collar?
How can she разобраться в цьому справі and avoid a new mistake? Who should she trust, and whom should she fear? And what is now at stake? Freedom and life—or… true love?