The long-awaited continuation of the story about brothers, begun by the novels “The Secret Warrior” and “The Tsar’s Knight”! The winter that has befallen the world has lasted for the second decade. The blizzard is becoming more and more ferocious, the frost is becoming more and more merciless, but people live, travel, each one defends his truth... The young prince undergoes new tests, proving that he is worthy to rule his father’s city of Shegardai. Will he be able to take his sister with him, for whom they have already begun to look for a profitable groom? Meanwhile, the true heir to the throne, who has become a knight, is left to rest in the village after being wounded. His incognito is revealed, and the governor orders him to follow to Shegardai in order to finally clarify the order of succession to the throne. But then unexpected news comes. In a distant land, the allies are in trouble, and the governor is rushing to their rescue - will he have time? And in Shegardai itself, an artisan buys a slave - a lame cripple, almost unable to speak. But for some reason, after this, street musicians begin to play amazingly beautiful songs...