The world of a millennium ago. The last retreating glaciers, the first legendary empires, the mythical ancestors of the Finns and Slavs and the miraculously preserved relics of much more ancient eras - all this is the world of the great Aratta and the surrounding wild lands. Danger threatens the living gods of Aratta, and the most remote corners of the inhabited world are in motion. Tribes rise up, ancient demons, banished centuries ago, awaken. Prince Ayur returns to the capital from the Great Hunt. It cannot be called successful - out of the entire large retinue, only three people survived. The curse of the forest werewolf haunts both the prince himself and his companions. At home they are greeted as enemies; There is a whiff of treason everywhere. One will face a mortal battle instead of a wedding, and the other will have to face the dark magic of the northern Byars. Each of the heroes is destined for a fate that he could not imagine before: to lose and find himself; protect your good name; stand against everyone, defending the right to love. The “Aratta” cycle is the first collaboration between the creator of the famous series about the Wolfhound and the talented St. Petersburg writer Anna Gurova, author of the book series “Prince of Silence”, “Moon Warrior”, “Book of Fire” and other popular works fantasy genre.