About the book: year / Novgorod is alarmed by the appearance of an elusive maniac, not even suspecting that behind all these nightly horrors is... That's right, magic. And what a loser you have to be, so that instead of sitting at home and drinking tea and cake, you almost become dinner for the thals. Alina’s saviors turned the familiar world upside down: they took her to a village hidden in the most terrible forest, and told her something that no normal person would believe, because gnomes and elves exist only in fairy tales, everyone knows that…