Something is wrong in the world of “sword and magic”. In Dalanai, a country of glorious warriors, brave princes and all-knowing magicians, the inhabitants of the mysterious island of Salkhan suffer from an ancient curse - and it will not be eradicated until a mysterious stranger from other lands... In proud Albigaeia, the land of knights, clerics and beautiful ladies, the almighty inquisitors of the Screaming God, wearing a magical tattoo on their chest - the Appearance, flood the country with blood, sending more and more heretics and witches to trial and execution... In the glorious city of Kremen, the stern father orders a young man takes as his wife a maiden, whom rumor has glorified as a witch, and the young husband has to involuntarily endure an endless struggle with the spells cast by her... And far in the East, in the lush and cruel Faria, begins the story of a long and inescapable enmity between a warrior from the pasha’s personal guard and the mysterious killer - assassin - enmity that will only end when one of the enemies dies... The lands are different. The path from one to the other is long. But Evil - cunning, many-sided - does not know distances, just as Good does not know them... To the collection included the stories “Fierce Island”, “Face in the Dark”, “Faith of an Assassin”, “Bitter Honey”