Ложная богиня. Книга 1. Алый трон

Narod Bakhtina sviato verit: poka ih boginia vossedaet na Alom trone, gosudarstvo budet procvetat. No bogini nikogda ne sushestvovalo. Binsa — deistvuushaia Rakhti Bakhtina, sosud bogini mudrosti Rashmatun, — znaet eto, kak nikto drugoi. Uje desiat let Binsa vienujdena skrievat vnutri sebia bezjalostnogo demona, ved eshe v detstve ona usvoila ot materi odin vajniei urok: tron — edinstvennoe, chto spaset ee ot golodnoi smerti. Neurojai, zasuha i sluhi o padaushih s neba kozah — vse ukazievaet na to, chto Prorochestvo Girkhi nachinaet sbievatsia. Verhovniei jrec Harun i ego preemnik Nudin gotoviatsia k otboru novoi Rakhti, i tron dlia Binsie iz simvola vlasti stremitelno prevrashaetsia v smertniei prigovor. Poteriat ego — znachit vernutsia v strashniei mir odinochestva i nishetie, otkuda ona s takim trudom viebralas. No chem dolshe dlitsia ee pravlenie, tem ochevidnee stanovitsia pravda: sila, podderjivaushaia vlast, trebuet vse bolshih jertv — i odnajdie mojet poglotit samu Rakhti. Chtobie uderjatsia na Alom trone, Binsa vienujdena zakluchit noviei dogovor s demonom. A demon vsegda trebuet platie, i na etot raz on jajdet ludskoi krovi. Vperviee 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!