Having learnt the truth about her father, Vika finds herself faced with a difficult choice. What should she do first: save her parents or reassemble the Heart of the Eight Worlds? Both missions begin in the capital, Deliris, so the decision could be postponed, but… She’ll have to make it eventually — under mounting pressure from the Resistance. And the capital is magnificent! Every window displays luxury and success. The interiors look as though they’ve come straight from the cover of an expensive magazine. How happy everyone here must be! Your head is spinning from the splendor; you walk down the street and lose track of time: stars all round, sparks, sparks, stars… Only, for some reason, Vanilka’s radiance is fading. Every now and then you come across people who are prepared to do anything to make the brightest houses in Deliris vanish from the cityscape. And they even have the perfect weapon. To break into the palace with its golden spires — in whose dungeon one or even both of her parents might be languishing — Vika and her friends go to extreme lengths and use every trick in the book to win the competition. After all, the winner will be invited to a gala dinner at the palace, and doors previously kept locked will open before them. “The Windows of Deliris” is the seventh book in the “Eight Worlds” series, a long and spellbinding tale of goodness, treachery and friendship — and of how one must also know how to choose and cherish one’s dreams.