The Pearl of Forgiveness

A detective novel in the style of mystical realism and the genre of urban fantasy. Moscow’s bright magician Maksim travels to a rural backwater to learn how to look through the so-called “threads of consequences”—the likely outcomes of decisions. On the way back, he meets a girl who pulls him into a strange story. Her grandmother fought three wars and spent her entire life side by side with death—but remained unharmed. The secret lies in a mysterious inheritance that many magicians and mental hackers are hunting. The answer to where the mysterious inheritance is hidden—and what it really is—is kept in the memories of people who died long ago.

Maksim hates speaking with the dead and doesn’t want to cross the road of the strongest dark forces—especially as a quiet introvert. He can’t see himself in the role of a superhero. But the horror that storms into his “threads of consequences” leaves him no choice…