About the book: 2019 / A world without hunger and disease, a world in which there is no war or poverty. Even death retreated from humanity, and people received the opportunity to rejuvenate and quickly recover from terrible injuries that were incompatible with life in previous centuries. Only a special caste - the reapers - have the right to take lives in order to keep the population under control. Teenagers Citra and Rowan are chosen as apprentices to the reaper, although they do not want to do this at all. In just one year they will have to master the “art” of taking life. One year - to become adults, to abandon previous habits and beliefs. A year of incredible exertion of all forces – physical and mental. Because, according to the law, a reaper cannot have two apprentices, and the one who turns out to be weaker is subject to destruction…