About the book: 2024 / Samantha Shannon takes readers back to the universe of "Orange Tree House", showing what this world was like in the distant past. Five centuries have passed from the day of Princess Cleolinda’s victory over the Nameless One, the red serpent that burst out of the bowels of the earth and brought with it a great pestilence. The outcome of the battle was decided by the orange tree with its magical fruits... But the princess had no doubt: the day would come when the snake would return. Therefore, she founded the monastery of the Orange Tree, where they raised warriors who could give a worthy rebuff to the fiend of the Mountain of Terror... Tunuva, the keeper of Cleolinda’s grave, spent more than a dozen years in the monastery. She is an excellent wielder of weapons, but the measured life of the secret stronghold does not promise a chance to use it, because since the time of the Nameless One, snakes have not disturbed the peace of civilians, and many have already begun to doubt that the terrible guest will again appear from the fiery abyss. The young heiress of the kingdom of Inis, Glorian , daughter of Sabran the Ambitious and King Hammer of the North, is confident that her future reign will be remembered for centuries. But for now she is in the shadow of her great parents, and misfortune follows on her heels. High in the mountains, Dumai, the daughter of a maiden servant and singer of the gods, dreams of seeing dragons in the sky. And one day she will find out who she is... And when Mount Terror begins to erupt, proclaiming an era of terror and violence, these women, so different in birth and upbringing, must find the strength to protect humanity from a destructive threat. And perhaps a flower among the ashes will serve as proof that life goes on...For the first time in Russian!