About the book: 2007 / Lois McMaster Bujold is primarily known for her three-Hugo Award-winning science fiction series about the adventures of Miles Vorkosigan - a series translated into dozens of languages ​​and has conquered millions of readers. However, connoisseurs of “fantasy” also know another Bujold - the author of amazing, unusual “literary legends”, each of which was, is and remains a true pearl of the genre. The world of “sword and magic”. The world of high houses fighting between themselves for so long that no one remembers the reasons for these wars. The world of the mysterious witchcraft Curse that fell on the House of Chalion. A curse that only a strange, scarred man, who has already died for Chalion, can exorcise.