A new novel from the author of the cult series “Vampire Academy” in the fashionable genre of “post-apocalypse”! “The truth is that when you expel the gods from the world, they return - and begin to take revenge. People cannot live without gods, and gods cannot live without people.” Many years ago, the most dangerous virus “Mephistopheles” destroyed half of the Earth’s population. The survivors formed a new society: patricians and plebeians, forced marriages, a complete ban on any religious beliefs. Investigating the ritual murders, Justin March, a minister of the Committee of Sects and Cults, and a fighter of the elite unit, Praetorian May Koskinen, will face the terrible truth. Forces whose power cannot be imagined are preparing to reclaim a world that has abandoned the divine principle, and people are just pieces on the chessboard of the gods.