About the book: 2012 / Steven Erickson is the pseudonym of the Canadian writer Steve Rooney Lundin, known for the fantasy cycle "The Malazan Book of the Fallen", which began in 1999 with the novel " Gardens of the Moon." The story was written in 2010 and belongs to this cycle. There were five of them - tired, exhausted soldiers of fortune, defeated in battle. Fate led them to a village forgotten by the gods, located not far from a dilapidated fortress. All they needed was This is a small respite, a shelter for one night. Even if it is a night in a stronghold abandoned many years ago, why are the locals sure that strangers cannot survive this night??..