Pierre-et-Metal is a city made of stone and metal. Its streets wind between remote slums, noisy taverns and deserted houses revived by loneliness. Their unique power is their gift, their service is their curse. The orphaned Gorder sisters end up in a strange city and find themselves drawn into a dangerous investigation. They are the clues locked in the wilderness. And if the world is so cruel, can you trust strangers who offer a helping hand? Luten is an obsessed caretaker of a deserted place. The housekeeper is a passionate researcher and careerist with an impeccable reputation. The tavern owner is a joker, the hero of gossip and terrible legends. The city is mired in secrets and conspiracies: murderers , traitors, influential moneybags, religious fanatics... The time has come to challenge them. The first novel in the “Bezlyud” series by Zhenya Yurkina. “Bezlyud” is a dark and sophisticated conventional world of the nineteenth - early twentieth centuries, a small town keeping dark secrets, and two sisters, forced to confront the adversity that has befallen them amid the creaking of living walls. Adventures, a detective story, a search for a home, a search for answers - all this is “Beyond People.”