Editor’s note from 2019. A novel about love. Mysticism. “The worst wars usually happen between relatives,” says the heroine of the novel. In wars, people die—even those who don’t realize they’ve become unwilling participants in someone else’s conflicts. And how can a medic understand that, if witches are at war and you’re just an ordinary emergency doctor, a pragmatist and an atheist? It’s very hard for a medic to believe in the supernatural. Much easier to attribute everything incomprehensible to coincidence.