About the book: 2002 / Fans of the "Black Squad"! This book is for you. This is a saga about sorcerers and heroes, living people - and people who returned from dead. About wise and cynical dragons who either take the side of Evil or, on the contrary, with all their might resist the Lords of Evil who are looking for a way into this world. This is a chronicle of lands where magic, once united, is split into schools warring among themselves. Lands where cruel barons, mired in endless internecine wars, are ready to pay dearly to hired blades that promise them victory. The best of the mercenaries are the Raven Squad. Only they will risk protecting their dragon allies in a hopeless, desperate, merciless war between dragon tribes! Only they will dare to do the unthinkable - to grapple in mortal combat with the irresistible and mysterious Day Shadow - the embodied power of Darkness, summoned to life by an ancient, powerful spell…