A series of strange and terrible outbreaks of violence swept across California. Very respected and rich people, one after another, suddenly rushed to kill everyone they could get their hands on, starting with their families. At the same time, they left strange inscriptions in an unknown language at crime scenes, which the best linguists in the country were unable to decipher. Los Angeles Times reporter Brian Howells realized that a sensation had fallen into his hands. He zealously began to investigative journalism and gradually began to piece together scattered facts that pointed to the fact that the origins of the current violence lay in the distant times of the gold rush in California. And also that these killers are not entirely human. More precisely, not people at all...