From now on, gnomes will live with people. And not because both of them suddenly desired it. It’s just that the vaults of the foothill caves of Petria collapsed one terrible day and buried the past of an entire people. Now the gnomes need to get used to a new life: incomprehensible, with foreign laws, with foreign hopes, with enemies who seem to be no longer enemies, with relatives who can sometimes be worse and more dangerous than their enemies. There is no return to the past. Not for Yaksh, the lord of the gnomes, who decided to leave and change his fate forever, not for Gunnhild, a young gnome, on whose shoulders the power and responsibility for her people fell, nor for Tad Fitzgerald, commandant of Petriysky Island, whose entire previous life was fueled by hatred of the foothills. warriors and dreams of revenge, nor for Shartz, once a spy and traitor, and now a most skilled healer. However, the past does not let anyone go without reckoning...