The sleepy peace of a small town is disturbed by terrible deaths: corpses frozen in the ice are found on the lake. Commissioner Nathan Brannon begins an investigation, and to help him is assigned a strange consultant with a huge red dog and a gloomy butler, whose face is impossible to remember. Who is guilty of the murders, and is it the work of human hands? Who exactly is this consultant and why does he scare the commissioner almost more than the force opposing them? Magic, betrayal, love, fear, revenge and hatred are intertwined into one ball. And this is just the beginning...