"We gazed at the city from the sea. Istanbul was covered in fog... And the sea as well... Covered in fog, just like our boat... What we could make out were the minarets of Sultanahmet, the dome of Hagia Sophia, the towers of Topkapi. The city gave the impression that it had never been plundered, never destroyed, never polluted. Nature had covered with a pure white fog anything ugly in the city. Like a fleeting vision just before the sunrise... Like a magical mist... A fairytale image... Like a brand new beginning... New, hopeful, beautiful...

We gazed at the city from the sea..."

A corpse lying at the base of Ataturk's statue in Sarayburnu. In its palm, an ancient coin... However, neither the corpse is the last victim nor the coin the last ancient coin. Seven victims, seven monarchs, seven coins, seven historical landmarks of the City. The only truth: the long-lasting history of a magical and enigmatic city, the city of cities...

A novel-river, where human passions meet history, where adventure escalates along with emotion, a great contemporary fairy tale that starts from Byzantium and Constantinople and reaches the present-day metropolis of Istanbul with its great contradictions, a literary bestseller that has enchanted more than 300,000 readers in Turkey...