Maddy Smith, born with a special mark on her arm, has always been an outsider in her home village of Malbry. The good people of Malbry believe that such a mark—the “witch rune,” as it is called here—is a symbol of the old gods, a sign of magic. And this, as everyone knows, leads straight to chaos and danger! And of course, now, five hundred years after the End of the World, no one wants the world to be mired in magic again. But Maddie likes to create miracles. Her best friend, a mysterious stranger nicknamed One-Eye, whom Maddie met several years ago on Red Horse Hill, explained to the girl that she was marked with the sign of the rune, and passed on magical knowledge to her. Now Maddie is ready to fulfill One-Eye's most important task: to descend into the Underworld and find there a relic of the Ancient Age. Otherwise, the End of the World may come again, and this time - finally... For the first time in Russian! An epic-romantic story from the author of “Chocolate”!