Mortimer Reece is a coward, and everyone who matters knows it.
The officer who froze at Bushy Run wanted nothing more than to disappear into London’s gutters. But the King’s agents have other plans. An alien temple in the Pennsylvania wilderness needs securing, and Reece is the broken tool they have chosen for the job.
Fort Clarke is undermanned. The fortifications are incomplete. No relief column is coming. War chief Kariwase has surrounded the position with overwhelming forces, demanding the English leave his people’s holy ground.
Reece’s second-in-command despises him. The Strand Brothers guard the temple’s location behind their own ambitions. And his own mind keeps showing him every way this siege ends in slaughter.
There is nowhere left to run. The only way out is through a battle he has spent years proving he cannot face.
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