The days when people made up beautiful fairy tales and creepy legends about the magical people are long gone, but fairies still live among us, hiding under the illusion of human appearance. Oktober Day was unlucky to be born a half-blood substitute, a stranger to humans, unwelcome to faerie. But she owns what the immortals have not wanted to learn for thousands of years: the ability to use the experience and skills of people. This leads her to knightly service to Sylvester Torquil, Duke of the Shadowy Hills. Also , after Oktober gets into the center of the intrigue of the infinitely more powerful What is it ,? Simon Torqueville , Her twin brother , and is imprisoned in the body of a fish for fourteen years, Not only does it acquire a persistent dislike for water, but also a categorical unwillingness to deal with the magical world in general. Her former love, Connor O'Dell, entered into a political marriage with Reiselyn Torqueville, Sylvester's heir, and her mortal husband Oktober and daughter, born of marriage to him after fourteen years of absence, became strangers. Oktober lives alone, not counting the society of a couple of cats, and works as a private detective in the world of people.