About the book: year / The novel takes place in two worlds: modern and fictional, close to the Middle Ages, but filled with magic and magical creatures. A middle-aged proofreader, Taya, finds solace in writing a fantasy novel and raising her goddaughter Lesya. One autumn, during a picnic, Taya and Lesya go wandering through the forest and unexpectedly find themselves in another world. And Taya realizes with surprise that they have found themselves in the world of her novel, in the eastern borderland, where free barons rule. But she still doesn’t know that this world, although created by her imagination, has long been developing according to its own laws.