For sixteen years London has been in ruins. Those who managed to survive created camps in its vicinity with a population of several hundred people. Life in the camps is harsh, it consists of marauding forays into the city, raids on neighbors and repelling enemy attacks. The vaunted English politeness is a thing of the past; the laws of civilized society have been replaced by the laws of the clan. You can only trust your own people; all strangers are sworn enemies, competitors in the struggle for survival. Even more dangerous are the Beasts - this is the name given to the two-legged inhabitants of the London ruins who have completely lost their human appearance. Hayden is twenty-one years old, but he already heads Blackwing, the most fortified and dangerous of all the camps. Grace, a girl from the rival Greystone camp he accidentally saved, is not ready to trust the leader of those whom she was taught to mercilessly destroy from childhood. For the first time in Russian!