About the book: 2017 / Continuation of the adventures of Ilar Istarsky! A reluctant black magician, and now an envoy of the emperor himself, Ilar investigates the mysterious murders of sorcerers in the Tower of Shelohom . The young magician still does not handle spells very skillfully, and therefore inspires others with awe of his incomprehensible power. Many women are eager to see him, but Ilar misses his wife, who was left in the capital and is already expecting a child, and therefore stubbornly resists temptation. And everything would have been fine if whimsical fate had not thrown new challenges at him.…