The valiant commander Uhtred recaptured his ancestral nest, the fortress of Bebbanburg, but this does not mean the end of the brutal war for the integrity of medieval Britain. An uprising is raging in Mercia, the dynastic struggle for the throne continues in Wessex, and from there the former enemy is approaching; Earl Sköll and his Ulfhedin warriors, who acquire the ferocity of wolves in battle, encroach on the lands of Northumbria. Enemies from all sides overcome Uhtred. Is he really damned forever and is not destined to achieve the unification of his homeland? The eleventh novel from the “Saxon Chronicles” series. For the first time in Russian!