About the book: 2005 / Archipelago of Islands. A powerful royal dynasty once ruled here - but a thousand years have passed since the last of the great kings - Carus - was killed by a magician hired by the treacherous duke-usurper. However, black magic brought trouble to the Archipelago. The lines of magical Power were confused, the connection between time and space was interrupted... and for many years there was a continuous war for the title of Lord of the Islands. And now the young man Garrick or-Rize, the last direct descendant of King Carus, and his friends - a good-natured hero, a stern sorceress, a beautiful maiden and a cynical old witch - go to the distant island of Ornifal to fight a powerful demon who has taken possession of the body of the queen of the island - and is now trying to change the fate of the world by freeing from the prison of the ancient Beast...