Period: 1200′sSetting: Central Europe
by Leslie Lupien
read by Shawn Robertson
What can a Templar knight, a widowed baroness and a tattered army do against the relentless onslaught of the Mongol hordes?
The fearsome reputation of the creatures had preceded them from Poland, where they had swept all before them. The Poles called them Tatars. Some said they were Satan’s minions that Alexander the Great had driven beyond the Eastern mountains. Others said that they won by Satanic enchantments. That must be right, Jocelyn thought, because they were scrawny, wore what looked like fish scales instead of armor, and rode short-legged horses.
