Having mastered the power hidden in dragon thread (a rare nerve fiber extracted from the spine of a ghostmoth dragon), Queen Ashlyn Malgrave single-handedly incinerated an army of rebel barons - and was still forced to flee her native Almira. Now, on behalf of Okinu, Empress Papiria, and with the help of Bershad the Immaculate, the best dragonman on all of Terra, Ashlyn attempts to penetrate the secrets of the research once carried out by Osiris Ward, the ill-fated royal engineer of Balaria, on the island of Phantom Moths - the northern haven of pirates. Meanwhile, the Balarian air fleet, built by Osiris from dragon bones, sets off to conquer the remaining powers of Terra...For the first time in Russian, a continuation of “possibly the best debut in the dark fantasy genre since Sapkowski’s The Witcher” (Grimdark Magazine).