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From the author of The Secret of the Abandoned Monastery and The Secret of the Cursed Forest!

Destroyed post-war Poland, 1954. In an abandoned monastery, angels gave Nina Pankowicz extraordinary intelligence and strength. The communist secret services take her to the Totenwald Institute, where cruel experiments are carried out on 'special' teenagers.

In the new novel, Nina and her friends are on winter holidays. They are brought to a picturesque mountain town on the border, where they are taught to shoot and fight to the death. They are being trained to become an elite squad to fight the inhumans.

One day, a girl wakes up in a strange outfit in an empty palace on the market square and discovers that she has forgotten everything that happened during the holidays. But here's the worst part: the beautiful city has suddenly become deserted, as if everyone had disappeared in a single moment. Except for a strange monster who is chasing the girl through the dead streets...

What happened? Where has everyone gone? When Nina meets Jacek, her memory slowly returns...

Why you should read:

The Nina Pankovic series is for those who love fantasy and mysticism. The books of this series are the best-selling in Poland.

About the author:

Anna Kantoch is a Polish writer and literary critic. She made her debut in 2003 and is a member of the Silesian Fiction Club. Some of her works are written under the pseudonym Anneke. She received the ESFS award at Eurocon 2007 as a young promising author, was nominated for the Polish detective fiction award "Big Calibre Award", and was a winner of the J. Seidel Prize, the Janina Paradowska Prize and the Jerzy Żuławski Prize.