Dressmaker Karin has a little secret: she knows how to turn into a cat. He sews wedding dresses during the day, walks through the eaves at night. But once curiosity played an unkind joke on her... Someone else's window, snippets of suspicious conversation, a surge of dark magic - and Karin will not tell anyone what she heard, because she has lost the ability to take on a human form. The only way to get rid of the evil enchantments is a special ritual in the capital's Temple of All Gods. But how to get there on snowy roads when there is such a cold in the yard that the birds scour on the fly? The disgraced magician of winter, the one who is called the White Count, is again called to the court to pacify the elements. But the lord of blizzards and frosts has his own plans, and not the last place in them is given to a cat girl who sees summer in his eyes...