<p>"Powder smoke and the stench of brimstone waft off the pages." - QUARTERDECK MAGAZINE<br>1261. Oxford, England. An envoy returns from the land of the Tartars to meet with an English scholar and share a deadly secret. The two men vow that the knowledge of gunpowder must die with them as the consequences are otherwise too fatal to contemplate.<br>1290. After his quiet life is shattered by tragedy, blacksmith Jared begins a pilgrimage from Englan...