Dead Games are getting closer, attempts to kill are getting more sophisticated, and more secrets are being revealed... Ria Caro did not expect that the blood of the dark would awaken in the rector of Necros, Lord Gaer-ashe, but an even greater surprise is that an attempt to cope with burnout makes the young necromancer-artifact of the magician Death, one of those who are sentenced to destruction on the territory of the Fourth Kingdom. And ahead - the most mysterious and beautiful event of the year - a ball of necromancers, as well as a clue to the eternal winter that surrounds Necros...