**Major Lewis Cayce will need to use every weapon in his arsenal to keep
his stranded men alive on a deadly alternate Earth in this gripping new
adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling
Destroyermen series.
**
It is 1847, and almost a full year after being shipwrecked on another,
far stranger and more dangerous Earth on their way to fight Santa Anna
in the Mexican-American War, Lewis Cayce and his small group of
artillerymen, infantrymen, and dragoons have made friends in the
Yucatán, helped build an army, and repulsed the first efforts of the
blood-drenched Holy Dominion to wipe their new friends out.
As an even more radical cult of Blood Priests arises and begins to
pursue its own path to power, the Dominion can't let its defeat stand.
It must crush the heretics and expel them from the land it has claimed.
Fortunately, Lewis Cayce is a professional. He understands defense can
only result in a stalemate at best, and a stalemate with the more
populous Dominion will only lead to defeat in the end. The lucky few
will be enslaved. The rest will be sacrificed in the most horrific way
imaginable. The only hope his new allies have is to win--and to do that,
his little army must attack the most powerful and diabolical enemy on
the planet in its own territory. Achieving victory will take all Lewis's
imagination, the courage and trust of his soldiers--and all the round
shot and canister his tiny band of artillerymen can slam out.
