About the book: 2009 / In the world of people, orcs are pariahs, cannon fodder in the endless wars that neighboring kingdoms wage with each other. But for the powers that be, people are nothing more than tools for achieving ambitious goals. Who, if not Dar, an orphan girl from a small mountain village, would not know about this. Her father and stepmother forcibly gave her into the “property of the king,” which means that now her fate is to serve soldiers and officers in the army for the rest of her days. But the ways of the gods are inscrutable, and one day Sevren, an officer of the royal guard, meets the young beauty Dar in a battle camp. Changes are about to come in the girl’s life, but the war decreed otherwise…