About the book: year / Ingenium - the new future of humanity. It appeared on the wave of the industrial breakthrough - the motor industry, romantics idolize it, politicians follow it, businessmen and the military want to use it. Everyone expects miracles from ingenium, forgetting that it has a reverse side - a shadow that leads its owner to madness and death. Ethan Shelby, who found himself in Rierta - the city of canals and bridges, became an unwitting participant in the events in which ingenium and its secrets play an important role.