For thousands of years, the peoples of the Nine Lands lived serenely under the rule of one hundred gods. One more, one less - it would seem, what's the difference? But then the impossible, even the unthinkable, happens: Mirin, the goddess of the Summer Islands, receives a fatal wound. And the balance of divine powers collapses, and with it the entire mortal world. Tilar de Noch, a former knight of shadows, and now a pathetic cripple, is the only one who is able to identify the criminal. The dying goddess managed to endow Tilar with superhuman strength, thereby making him marked for both people and dark entities - both consider him an enemy. A new masterpiece from the creator of world bestsellers, also known as James Rollins.