About the book: 2021 / 17 years ago In the dead of a dark night, a young woman, rejected by everyone in her village, dies on a bed of blood. A half-smile plays on her exhausted face, her gaze is fixed on the moonlit forest. The last words of the girl that the midwife heard after the birth of the unfortunate child were: “Curse... a little curse, as she said...”. And then a sickening, gurgling laugh spreads throughout the house, foreshadowing an imminent disaster. Our time Young Immanuel tries her best to live according to the laws of the Church and follow the Holy Scriptures. She should not doubt the need for strict rules - after all, it was here, on the outskirts of Bethel, that the first Prophet defeated powerful witches and cleansed the earth of Evil. Chance lures Immanuelle into the forbidden forest, where she receives the gift of her dead mother's diaries and learns the truth about the true history of the Church. Full of determination, she begins to act, because the real threat to Bethel is not from distant evil forces, but from those that live nearby every day.