Open war between the curs and the Priest-Kings, it would seem, is a thing of the past. However, everything is not as it might seem. It's not over yet. And so a young woman named Allison Ashton-Baker, who had no idea about the raging secret struggle between two powerful civilizations, but was still fond of games of Horus on Earth, finds herself in Ar. She will have to witness the unfolding events. And we have to meet again with Lord Grendel, the result of a failed experiment on mixing the genes of people and kurs? with Lady Bina, formerly the Kur's pet, who dreams of the throne of Ubara Ara, and with Agamemnon himself, the Eleventh Face of the Unnamed, the illustrious leader behind the preparations for the invasion of the Kurs. Travel and intrigue await us, as usual, spiced with the spices of cultural relativism and criticism of modernity and gender relations.