The demon comes in the mist

Two new colonization settlements were planted near Landštejn Castle. However, their construction becomes unexpectedly complicated and the settlers are plagued by an unknown evil. Repeated thefts of tools in one of the settlements, which at first are more of a nuisance, culminate in tragedy when the deputy locator and a young girl are brutally murdered under strange circumstances, and then the other settlement is attacked by unknown gunmen. At the same time, one of the Landstein soldiers is killed on the land trail. Are all these crimes connected? Or is the temporal and spatial coincidence merely coincidental? And who are the mysterious gunmen who move near the castle, leaving a wide trail of blood in their wake?
Adalrik of Sichelbach, one of the commanders of the castle garrison, faces an extraordinary challenge. Together with his comrades, he must try to untangle a web of relationships, interests and intrigues, some of which reach to the higher levels of power politics...