The path of a peacemaker is full of vicissitudes. Where to go, what deeds should the Seventh Peacemaker Mark do when there is no understanding of why he was called into this world and whether he was called at all? All that remains is to follow the dictates of the heart, praying that it corresponds to the will of the Almighty, and not to the dark passion of the internal enemy of the Seventh Peacemaker - Sarks. And even the legendary warrior-initiate is powerless to help Mark until he changes his own ideas about the enemy, about the world and about himself. The ruler of the invisible empire, the Puppeteer, is plotting, the trace of the Eighth Peacemaker is lost in the fog, and Queen Silvira is leading her army into the Dark Valley - to fight the hordes of the Fallen Lord. But it’s not enough for Silvira to win the coming battle. After all, no matter how many hordes of the enemy her valiant army defeats, it is powerless against the cruel human indifference that undermines the Kingdom of Amarchton day after day.

The novel is written at the intersection of allegorical fantasy and psychological prose: the monsters here correspond to certain human feelings, moods and beliefs, and combat magic and swordsmanship stem from the unknown and sometimes unpredictable elements of the human soul.