Runa Uinters v begah. Ee vozlyublennyy, Gideon Sharp, raskryl obschestvu ee istinnuyu suschnost, i s teh por na nee idet ohota. Chtoby vyzhit, Rune nuzhno primknut k Kresside Rouzblad, zhestokoy i opasnoy vedme, planiruyuschey vernut sebe vlast nad respublikoy.
Runa ne prosto obmanula Gideona. Ona predala ego, obedinivshis s Kressidoy, tem samym chelovekom, kotoryy prevratil ego zhizn v suschiy ad. Gideon ne poterpit vozvrascheniya prezhnego poryadka. Dlya spokoystviya v mire, kotoryy on izbavil ot koshmarov, dolzhna umeret kazhdaya vedma - osobenno Runa Uinters.
Runa delaet predlozhenie, ot kotorogo Gideon ne sposoben otkazatsya. Dlya dostizheniya svoih opasnyh tseley im prihoditsya obedinitsya. . . No chem blizhe oni stanovyatsya, tem otchetlivee Gideon ponimaet: u nego vse esche ostalis chuvstva k Rune. Teper on na raspute: pozhertvovat zhiznyu lyubimoy devushki radi togo, chtoby ostanovit monstra, ili spasti Runu i obrech na pogibel mir, za kotoryy on borolsya.