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The dark sorceress Varta Tarnovetska lived a rather quiet life in Lviv: she worked in a coffee shop, met her friends, and occasionally got into fights with fireflies. But everything changed when the Game started in the city. At stake in the decisive battle between the dark and the light is power in the Central European conglomerate for the next century. Despite all their efforts, the Guard cannot stay away from the fierce competition. Ahead of her, she has marks waiting for wizardly blood, a story about a demon, and what happened a hundred years ago... So now the Guard is in the Game.

Natalia Matolinets is a writer, journalist, and resident of Lviv. She is a winner of the Bohdan-Ihor Antonych Literary Prize "Greetings of Life" (2007), a participant and finalist of the fantastic short story competitions from the Star Fortress Association. In 2017, she won the second prize of the Coronation of the Word-2017 contest in the Novels nomination for her novel Hesse.

The novel "The Guard in the Game" received a special award from the All-Ukrainian Literary Competition of Prose Manuscripts "Winged Lion-2017" for an innovative search in the urban fantasy genre and a diploma of the novel competition "Lviv Crossroads-2017".