Two brothers and a sister, descendants of the ruling dynasty, are divided and confused, while the future of the Annur Empire is on the edge of a blade: hordes of wild nomads are approaching the capital. Ader, who proclaimed herself emperor, will not be able to hold back their advance for long without the help of the brilliant, inhumanly cruel commander - kenarang Rana il Tornyi. But what if he betrays Ader again? Will she be able to oppose her will and reason to his monstrous intellect?..Her brother Kaden, who was supposed to inherit the Unhewn throne after the death of his father at the hands of a murderer, abdicated the throne in favor of the republic. Kaden knows the threat posed by the kenarang. But none of the prince’s advisers wants to sacrifice their ambitions for the sake of the common cause... Valin, brother of Kaden and Ader, a warrior of an elite unit, is considered dead in the battle, although only his sister and another witness know what really happened. She wants one thing: that this truth never comes out...Belonging to a dynasty of rulers means taking on the entire burden of history. Anyone who wants to rule will have to make an ambiguous choice: die for the sake of the empire or destroy it in order to save it. For the first time in Russian!