About the book: year / In a world where merciless ifrits sacrifice slaves to their bloody goddess, where people are tortured and executed for connections with foreigners, and another destructive war becomes It's only a matter of time before there is room for legends from dusty scrolls to come to life. Asharkh, a simple history professor, thought so too, until he met a strange girl who came from the lifeless deserts and made a dubious deal with her. Will he now be able to find out all the secrets of his secretive companion and get to the hidden city of sand mages, when the punishing order of the ruler is relentlessly following on their trail, and every new day brings only trials??