Between the cold forests of Temni Vozda and the village under the shadow of Castle Ivanove, a young peasant girl with shapeshifting abilities agrees to take the place of a noblewoman seeking to pursue a forbidden romance. But as Ninka steps into this new identity, she becomes entangled in the secrets and intrigues of three generations of Rájmirian nobility-each thread leading back to a shadowy entity whose whispers haunt the towering pines and the wild darkness beneath them.