About the book: year / Sonya was born with a rare gift: she could feel what people around felt. This concerned not only emotions, but also physical condition. She kept her gift secret from the Empire for seventeen long years, until, due to a monstrous mistake, all bearers of such a gift disappeared. Sonya was immediately captured and forced to serve as the Imperial Diviner. Called upon to identify potential assassins while protecting the Emperor, Sonya is under constant pressure. But the girl’s strength is indomitable and insane; she cannot always understand: this is how people feel or whether she makes them feel this way. As darkness falls, the place teems with dangerous emotions as Sonya realizes that the greatest threat to the empire may be herself. Struggling to resist her power, the girl seeks refuge with the charming and fickle Emperor Valko and his idealistic brother Anton, the Crown Prince. But when the threat of revolution comes, pitting two brothers against each other, Sonya will have to decide which of the brothers to support and which to become a traitor....