The books based on the Netflix series – The Prequel 3 in the lavish fan edition.

"What are we to think of you - a witcher who turns down a lucrative offer every other day? You don't kill the Hirikka because they are endangered, not the Streitling because he is harmless, not the Nächtin because she is nice, not the dragon because the code forbids it..."

Witcher Geralt of Rivia makes a living, albeit a meager one, by eliminating various monsters. More often than not, the people who hire him regard him with deep suspicion. But he can live with that. Although his code of honor technically forbids it, he joins a group of dragon hunters - because the sorceress Yennefer, his long-lost love, is among them. However, the interests of the hunters are too diverse: a fight breaks out among them. And gradually, a threat to the established order becomes palpable...