About the book: 2004 / This is a world beyond. A gloomy, twilight parallel world, where high castles stand and high gods reign, where the future obeys the law of secret runes and the law of powerful spells. Monstrous monsters live here. Here, in the palace corridors, subtle intrigues are woven, daring conspiracies are born, blood is shed and the future is created. This is a world beyond. A world that has stood next to our world for centuries and centuries - unknown, inaccessible, alien. But one day the border between Earth and the world beyond ceased to exist. And then... And then the ruthless dark god, having escaped from a thousand-year imprisonment, found a path to the world beyond... And then the hordes of creatures of Darkness, passing through the Rune Gate, fell upon the lands of Zeya. And then again - perhaps for the LAST TIME! – the need has come for Travis Wilder, a man capable of wandering between worlds, to act. To a person who has a great gift - the power to break and create the First Rune…