AN ICY SEPULCHRE MELTS … ENDANGERING THE WORLD!

It’s 1363 CE. The once-mighty Mongol Empire is crumbling, especially on its eastern flank. Meanwhile, a seven-man caravan follows the Silk Road towards and beyond Karakorum. It includes Sir John Mandeville, fugitive travel writer and surgeon; Friar Bartolo de Collazo, a priggish, scolding Franciscan; and Rabban bar Turfan, a quick-thinking Nestorian Uyghur merchant of flexible morals. North of Karakorum, they’re robbed by murderous bandits who slaughter friar Vincenzo and two drovers. Still shadowed by the bandits, the four survivors desperately seek safety and shelter in the wintry hills of eastern Siberia. However, the bandits catch and kill the caravan’s Evenki guide Ensukh, leaving the writer, friar, and merchant trapped inside a frigid cave. A fierce she-wolf blocks their only way out. Solid ice entombs the three and 655 years pass.

Awakened in 2018 with the help of Osor, an indigenous Siberian healer, they learn that their medieval world is long gone, and the confusing modern one is just as dangerous. Also, their journey through time weakened the barriers separating the celestial, earthly, and lower firmaments, posing dire threats to our present. To ensure a repair, the three men must expiate the immense guilt burdening each one and, guided by Tuyana, the healer’s clever daughter, travel eastward and homeward from Siberia in search of full penance. And to face their individual destinies. If they fail, our world will descend into utter chaos with more demons and evils unleashed than those already present … and then collapse into darkness.

This is the story of their arduous quest.

They’ll have to cross eastern Siberia, northern China, the Pacific Ocean, and North America, relying on false documents, dubious smugglers, porous borders, and the kindness of strangers. After crossing the Pacific, their journey becomes more dangerous, starting with a midnight attack by gunmen targeting Tuyana. Back in Siberia, Osor must join battle with the demonic forces threatening not just them but Earth itself.