About the book: 2020 / Rogora’s army is destroyed, Kogord is dead, and his heirs crossed blades in a dispute over who will survive and lead the handful of survivors... Has the Republic won? But everything changes overnight: a huge corps of the Zaur Sultanate, a formidable predator of the East, invades Rogora. Mortal danger looms not only over the broken kingdom, but also over the Republic, and yesterday's enemies are forced to unite. But even together, the Lechs of Bergara and the Rogorians of Adjei cannot resist; now everything depends on the changeable decisions of King Jacob... But is the monarch, dependent on the magnates, able to come to the aid of the vassals? And how will the fate of a warrior, once kidnapped by nomads, affect the course of the war??