Surrounded by enemies, once a great country Равка divides Shady Canyon - stripe of impenetrable darkness, swarming monsters that hanker after a human flesh. And now fate of nation in the hands of lonely girl Алины Старковой. Алина did not wait too a great deal from life. Being left an orphan as a result of border-line war, she reposes only in one man - the best friend on the name Small. When on Small волькры attack, in a girl magic force of such power wakes up, that is clear: she is able to save an entire country. Алину is driven away in a royal palace, where will train as one of гришей - representatives of elite association of magicians at the head with enigmatic Дарклингом. Coming her to run into the secrets of гришей. and the own heart.