Lois McMaster Bujold is best known for her three-Hugo Award-winning science fiction series about the adventures of Miles Vorkosigan - a series that has been translated into dozens of languages and captivated millions of readers. However, fantasy connoisseurs also know another Bujold - the author of amazing, unusual “literary legends”, each of which was, is and remains a true pearl of the genre. The world of “sword and magic”. The world of high Houses fighting among themselves for so long that no one remembers the reasons for these wars. The world of the mysterious witchcraft Curse that fell on the House of Chalion. A curse that can only be extinguished by a strange, scarred man who has already died for Chalion.