About the book: 2024 / Time of Troubles in Rus'. In the dense forest of the north of the Podonezh Pyatina, in her grandfather’s hunting hut, the boyar’s daughter Anna is hiding from the troops of the Swedes and Poles. And one day her peace is disturbed by two wounded, freezing youths. An older, powerful sorcerer, on the verge of exhaustion. The younger one, a man, simply dies from wounds and colds. Anna, a hereditary white witch, is trying to help, but she is not strong enough, she is not initiated! And a boyar’s daughter can undergo initiation only with a legal, married spouse, and always with a strong magical gift, otherwise her grandmother will not pass on the power to her! But will a noble sorcerer agree to marry without knowing whom, according to Orthodox rites, in order to save a friend? And then how can he find his unwitting wife from a remote corner of the forest in the whirlpool of events? And what impact can the fate of three people have on the fate of the state? This is the story of the boyar family of Voevodins, magicians and witches rolled into one. Ancestors of Alexa and Lyudmila. Reads like a completely independent story. Only the surname of the main character is associated with the cycle.