The Scarlet Box is the second book in the Chronoptics series. New adventures await the heroes of the novel “The Obsidian Mirror”. Together with them, we will visit medieval Italy during the Black Death and the fighting London of the 1940s, and continue to unravel the secrets of the magical Forest and its insidious and vengeful mistress. Jake Wilde will find his father lost in the wilds of time, and Sarah will find a mysterious scarlet box in the heart of Lady Summer's enchanted domain. But will the treasures stored in this casket help defeat the evil lurking in the obsidian mirror? And what does it have to do with three children - three little boys - who are chasing Jake, throwing more and more riddles at him? For the first time in Russian!