About the book: 2017 / Once upon a time, the Deities ruled the Continent, and therefore the whole world, but Saipur was just an oppressed colony, deprived of divine grace. But in the absence of miracles, the Saipurians followed the technological path of development and, as a result, not only overthrew the continental government, but also killed almost all the Deities, plunging the continent into chaos. Everything created by the Deities has disappeared, cities lie in ruins, local residents are forbidden to study their own history and perform religious rituals. When a Saipur historian who was researching local legends dies under mysterious circumstances in Mirgrad, the capital of the Continent, Shara Tivani comes to the city. Officially, she is just an ordinary cultural ambassador, but in reality she is one of the most experienced spies in Saipur. Her task is to find the killer, but she soon realizes that the stakes in this case are higher than ever, that in Mirgrad everything is not what it seems, there are real monsters here, conspiracies reign, you can’t even trust your own people, and information about the death of the Deities seems to be , greatly exaggerated.