Thirteen-year-old Sasha suddenly finds himself in a world alien to him. Instead of summer—winter; instead of evening—morning. And wolves… By miracle, a local hunter saves the boy. But before Sasha even settles into the hunter’s house, armed people attack him, along with savage orcs. Sasha and the hunter’s son, Ovik, are taken to the city of Amaris, where they are sold to a slave trader, who then hands them over to the temple orcs who served the Great Ihve temple. The high priest Seliman was preparing for another sacrifice that had to be performed on the day of the spring equinox, and the news that the main victim had fled enraged him. And if not for the knight Yastred, who knows whether Sasha would have survived the next night…