Sales of “The First Midnight” have begun: the first book of the “Legacy of the Voronoveli” saga opens a world of ancient Houses, bloodline magic, and dangerous secrets
Three brothers return home after their parents’ deaths and inherit something they never knew existed. “The First Midnight” is now on sale — and this is where the larger story of the Voronoveli begins.
A story that began with one missed phone call is now open to readers. “The First Midnight,” the first book in the “Legacy of the Voronoveli” saga, is officially on sale, inviting readers into a world where old family secrets survive for generations, magic follows its own laws, and sometimes the most dangerous inheritance is not power itself, but the truth about those who possessed it before you.
At 11:17 p.m., Mark sees his father’s name on his phone — and does not answer. Soon, an ordinary evening ends in fire, and Mark, Egor, and Danylo Voronoveli are forced to return to a past each of them had tried, in his own way, to leave behind. Their parents’ deaths bring the brothers back to the family estate, but instead of clear explanations, they find letters, prohibitions, strange rules, and the first unsettling realization that their family had been hiding far more than a handful of old secrets.
Before the first midnight, the three brothers must make a choice: search for the truth together or not search for it at all. It sounds simple, but for brothers who have long since learned how to live separate lives, the word “together” becomes one of their first real trials. They do not yet know that their decision will awaken the inherited power of the Voronoveli, weaken protections that have concealed them from others for years, and attract someone who has long been waiting for a chance to find the last heirs of an ancient bloodline.
“The First Midnight” does not throw the reader into a world of fully trained sorcerers and invincible heroes. Mark, Egor, and Danylo have no idea what they have inherited. They learn alongside the reader: testing rules, arguing over the meaning of old instructions, making mistakes, fearing their own abilities, and gradually understanding that magic in the world of the Voronoveli is not a beautiful gift of fate. Power requires precision, control, and responsibility, and one careless decision can cost far more than a failed spell.
That is why the first novel is not built on mystery alone. At its heart is the story of three brothers. Mark is accustomed to taking responsibility even when no one asks him to. Egor hears and notices more than the others and is often the first to recognize when something no longer fits ordinary logic. Danylo acts faster and more sharply, yet beneath that directness is someone unwilling to leave his brothers alone with danger. Together, they may be stronger than the enemy. Separated, they become exactly what the enemy needs them to be.
And the enemy already knows that the Voronoveli have awakened.
The first book gradually transforms a family mystery into a conflict of much greater scale. The brothers begin to understand that the fire was not an accident, start searching for the person behind the attack, and encounter Ihor Hrobontsov — a sorcerer who understands the rules of the old world far better than they do and sees in the young Voronoveli’s power something that can be taken and used. Yet even he may be only one part of a much older story, with roots reaching far beyond a single act of revenge or one attack.
In “Legacy of the Voronoveli,” old houses remember more than people do, letters left by the dead can reshape the future of the living, and a family name may carry more weight than the person who bears it. One mystery opens into another, every discovered rule reveals a new exception, and each answer hints at something larger: the Voronoveli have returned to a world that knew about them long before they learned the truth about themselves.
“The First Midnight” opens a larger saga in which ancient Houses, alliances and betrayals, the Great Council, bloodline politics, love, demons, rifts between worlds, and a struggle over a centuries-old order still lie ahead. But all of it begins here — with three brothers entering an old estate after their parents’ deaths, unaware of how far their first shared decision will carry them from the lives they once knew.
“Legacy of the Voronoveli. Book I: The First Midnight” is now on sale. The ebook can be purchased at Voronoveli.com, where readers can also access “The First Midnight” and the other books in the saga online through a subscription.
And for anyone entering the world of the Voronoveli for the first time, there is one thing worth remembering: before the first midnight, they could still refuse the inheritance. After it, the inheritance had no intention of refusing them.