All lovers dream of being together until the very end, but what should those for whom death is just the beginning do? And the one who gave her life for love opens her eyes in a new monstrously cruel world, to which the most merciless of its monsters has returned. Araeden Ellaras Ashero has achieved the goal that he has been pursuing for more than three hundred years, and Katriona will have to make a deal with Caesar in order to find at least a ghostly hope of returning home. What awaits her in the new world? Endless losses and boundless obedience, or a challenge to the one who taught its main thing - only those who never give up do not lose? The Black Star rises into the sky... The game continues.