About the book: 2006 / Lois McMaster Bujold. "A living classic" of modern fiction. The creator of the unique science fiction saga about Miles Vorkosigan. And also the author of amazing, original fantasy, the most famous of which is the Chalion cycle. The world of “sword and magic”. The world of high Houses fighting among themselves for so long that no one remembers the reasons for these wars. A world in which the sudden murder of an exiled half-mad prince, committed, according to the official version, by a young maiden of noble blood - a spark from which a fire of chaos and civil strife between Houses equally claiming the right to inherit the crown of a dying monarch can break out. This can only be prevented by finding the TRUE killer of the prince. And then he goes to the castle from the capital on a secret mission Lord Ingri kin Wolfcliffe..