About the book: 2005 / Here is Barbara Hambly's masterpiece - the epic saga about the world of Darveth. About the “dark world” of sword and magic, which lies only a step away from our world, but inaccessible to our vision. About a world that has now been invaded by monstrous gifts that have come from the bowels of the earth, destroying everything and everyone in their path. And one cannot be saved from the darks neither by the power of weapons, nor by the power of witchcraft, nor by the Word of the priests, unless the sorcerer Ingold, who was sent and crossed the Void, finds in our world the one on whom it now depends - to be or not to be Darvet.