Ложная богиня. Книга 1. Алый трон

Narod Bakkhtina svi͡ato verit: poka ikh bogini͡a vossedaet na Alom trone, gosudarstvo budet prot͡svetatʹ. No bogini nikogda ne sushchestvovalo. Binsa - deĭstvui͡ushchai͡a Rakkhti Bakkhtina, sosud bogini mudrosti Rashmatun, - znaet ėto, kak nikto drugoĭ. Uzhe desi͡atʹ let Binsa vynuzhdena skryvatʹ vnutri sebi͡a bezzhalostnogo demona, vedʹ eshche v detstve ona usvoila ot materi odin vazhnyĭ urok: tron - edinstvennoe, chto spaset ee ot golodnoĭ smerti. Neurozhaĭ, zasukha i slukhi o padai͡ushchikh s neba kozakh - vse ukazyvaet na to, chto Prorochestvo Girkkhi nachinaet sbyvatʹsi͡a. Verkhovnyĭ zhret͡s Kharun i ego preemnik Nudin gotovi͡atsi͡a k otboru novoĭ Rakkhti, i tron dli͡a Binsy iz simvola vlasti stremitelʹno prevrashchaetsi͡a v smertnyĭ prigovor. Poteri͡atʹ ego - znachit vernutʹsi͡a v strashnyĭ mir odinochestva i nishchety, otkuda ona s takim trudom vybralasʹ. No chem dolʹshe dlitsi͡a ee pravlenie, tem ochevidnee stanovitsi͡a pravda: sila, podderzhivai͡ushchai͡a vlastʹ, trebuet vse bolʹshikh zhertv - i odnazhdy mozhet poglotitʹ samu Rakkhti. Chtoby uderzhatʹsi͡a na Alom trone, Binsa vynuzhdena zakli͡uchitʹ novyĭ dogovor s demonom. A demon vsegda trebuet platy, i na ėtot raz on zhazhdet li͡udskoĭ krovi. Vpervye na russkom!

The people of Bakhtin firmly believe that as long as their goddess sits on the Scarlet Throne, the state will prosper. But the goddess never existed. Binsa, the active Rakhti Bakhtin, the vessel of the goddess of wisdom Rashmatun, knows this like no one else. For ten years now, Binsa has been forced to hide a ruthless demon inside herself, because even as a child she learned one important lesson from her mother: the throne is the only thing that will save her from starvation. Crop failure, drought, and rumors of goats falling from the sky all indicate that Hyrkha's Prophecy is beginning to come true. High Priest Harun and his successor Nudin are preparing to select a new Rakhti, and Binsa's throne is rapidly turning from a symbol of power into a death sentence. To lose him would be to return to the terrible world of loneliness and poverty from which she had struggled so hard to escape. But the longer her reign lasts, the more obvious the truth becomes: the force that sustains power requires more and more sacrifices — and one day it may consume Rakhti itself. In order to stay on the Scarlet Throne, Binsa is forced to make a new contract with the demon. And the demon always demands payment, and this time he's hungry for human blood. For the first time in Russian!