In the vastness of Siberia, a powerful evil spirit took possession of a mysterious shaman's amulet, who wished for eternal life among mortals. With the help of the amulet, he performed rituals of transition from one body to another. In our days in St. Petersburg, surgeon Alya encounters a patient who awakens disturbing memories in her. The sequel to the TikTok sensation and the AMAZON bestseller — the thriller "Stone Men." No serial killer has ever killed in this way. Christina Prusik is a forensic anthropologist, the FBI's chief forensic expert in the Midwest. She is an expert in unusual murders. By studying the victim's body, Christina can create a full-fledged profile of the killer. In fact, she is a profiler, although officially she is not one. The death of twenty-year-old Ellen McKinley became a real puzzle for forensic experts. The athletic student, a member of the university swim team, for some reason went down into a cave with climbing equipment, swam out along the river and suddenly died on the shore of a heart attack. No signs of violence were found on the body ... And soon in a neighboring state, the body of the murdered Naomi Winchester was found in a cave among stalagmites and also without any visible injuries. Moreover, it seemed as if the killer had laid him on the altar. Kristina Pryusik immediately understood: this is exactly how the previous girl should have been lying, if she had not managed to escape. It seems that they are dealing with a serial killer with a strange handwriting... I do not know how to live with this. My father is accused of brutally killing the wife and four daughters of a neighbor in the country - the writer Ivolgin. My father has long been dead, but this terrible accusation will always tear my heart to shreds. The "procedure" (if murder with dismemberment can be called such a word) was an exact copy of the terrible, almost satanic ritual described by Ivolgin in his notes. Investigators found the remains of all four sisters. Each body was missing some fragment. Can the creature that committed this be called a person? I don't believe that my father did this...