A series of strange deaths are taking place in the new Karpaty country hotel. Rumor has it that this is how the curse of the past inhabitants of this place, Romanian vampires, works. One of the victims was stabbed in the heart with an aspen stake... The Crusaders, as Konstantin's team is called in the department, go to the hotel: Masha gets a job as a maid, and Morozov settles there under the guise of a tourist. Meanwhile, Crusaders are haunted by his long-time enemy Faust, who invisibly monitors the work of the department.

An unheard-of incident in a small regional town. A necromancer known in occult circles revived two corpses: one of them killed an influential guest who was present at the ceremony, after which both of the revived dead disappeared. Soon, something happens in the village, after which even skeptical local police officers will begin to believe in the afterlife... As for the Crusaders, as he investigates, he finds more and more evidence that his archenemy Faust is behind the case.