Irina Mel'nikova obladayet blistatel'nym darom sozdat' uvlekatel'nuyu detektivnuyu intrigu na fone podlinnykh chuvstv i sil'nykh strastey. Yeye istoricheskiye i sovremennyye detektivno-lyubovnyye romany pokorili tysyach chitatel'nits i postoyanno zavoyevyvayut novykh! Po knigam snyaty neskol'ko populyarnykh telefil'mov i serialov. Oni poyavlyayutsya vnezapno i vnezapno ischezayut. Chernyye plashchi, kapyushony s krasnoy kaymoy, goryachiye loshadi, b'yushchiye bez promakha karabiny, metkiye strely… Nikto ne govorit vslukh ob etikh lyudyakh, zhivushchikh gde-to v glukhoy tayge, boyas' naklikat' bedu. Ratniki Very - tak nazyvayut ikh. Samaya otchayannaya iz nikh, tainstvennaya devushka po imeni Yevpraksiya, vse chashche stala poyavlyat'sya tam, kuda priyekhal Aleksey Polyakov - agent sysknoy politsii. On pytayetsya nayti sled ukradennykh u izvestnogo kollektsionera drevnikh tserkovnykh knig - i vse popytki vyyasnit' khot' chto-libo presekayutsya. Net somneniya - Yevpraksiya i yeye brat'ya po vere kak-to prichastny k ischeznoveniyu knig. No proniknut' za zavesu surovoy tayny, kotoroy okruzhili sebya Ratniki Very, poka ne predstavlyayetsya vozmozhnym….