Elizaveta Dvoretskaya is a multiple winner of literary awards, a favorite of re-enactors and fans of Slavic fantasy. “The Morning Rider” is an anniversary gift edition of the first novel in the “Princes of the Forest” series. Beautiful fairy-tale atmosphere, life and beliefs of the pre-Christian Slavs. Beregini, werewolves and goblins, magic, love and the search for oneself in a huge mysterious world. The son of the Slavic prince Velemog, Svetlova, was handsome, kind, sincere and friendly, so that even Lelya herself, the goddess of spring, fell in love with him. But the goddess cannot love like a mortal: spring is always a maiden, to become a wife would be contrary to her very nature, she is only a flower that never turns into a berry. On the first summer day, Lelya leaves her earthly lover, and until the new spring he will have to wait to meet her. Dreaming of his heavenly bride, Svetlova meets another girl, Smeyana, and in her he evokes the same love for the beautiful and inaccessible that he himself has for goddess Lela. They set off together in search of destiny, but their paths diverge...