Wizards have long penetrated many areas of life in the modern world. Sorcerers are secretly hired by influential politicians, the military seeks their help, and the staff of large business corporations is regularly filled with graduates of magic schools. The hero of the book is a young self-taught wizard who almost died at the hands of his beloved. Why did they want to kill the young man? What secret was his girlfriend hiding? And how is this mystery connected with the Romanian ruler Vlad Dracula and the mysterious Voynich Manuscript? The chain of searches will stretch from the Bosphorus Strait to the Mississippi River, through the skyscrapers of megacities, mountain villages, the walls of ancient castles and majestic temples. And each new answer will draw the wizard more and more into the fight against the ancient and powerful order of sorcerers.