About the book: year / The world will be saved by love - this is the opinion of the inhabitants of the Avien Empire, which once survived a great plague epidemic. Once every hundred years a Savior is born here, whose sacrificial death prevents new epidemics and wars. The crown prince has everything except the right to control his own destiny. He is only a vessel of the Divine will. The Dowager Baroness has no one except her brother, accused of treason. She is a desperate woman willing to take risks. Each of them burns in the flames of their own madness, not yet knowing that only by burning to the ground can they be reborn renewed. But the all-powerful lodge "Rubedo" comes into play, on its side - power, fear and obscurantism, and an inevitable revolution is brewing in the slums of Avien. To win, you have to put something more at stake. But what could be stronger than an epidemic and death? Only love.