The Dead Games are getting closer, attempts to kill are becoming more sophisticated, and more secrets are being revealed... Ria Caro did not expect that the blood of the dark ones would awaken in the rector of Nekros, Lord Gaer-ash, but an even bigger surprise is that the attempt to cope with burnout turns the young necromancer-artifactor into a magician of Death, one of those who are sentenced to destruction on the territory of the Fourth Kingdom. And ahead is the most mysterious and beautiful event of the year - the necromancers' ball, as well as the solution to the eternal winter that surrounds Nekros...