A young girl called Tozi stands at the bottom of a pyramid, waiting to
be led to the top where her heart will be cut out....
Pepillo, a Spanish orphan who serves a sadistic Dominican friar, is
aboard the Spanish fleet as it sails towards Mexico.... This is the epic
story of the clash of two empires, two armies and two gods of war.
Five hundred desperate adventurers are about to pit themselves against
the most brutal armies of the ancient Americas, armies hundreds of
thousands strong. This is a war of gods and men.
Dark powers that work behind the scenes of history show their hand as
the prophecy of the return of Quetzalcoatl is fulfilled with the arrival
of Cortes. The Aztec ruler Moctezuma fights to maintain the demands of
the war god Huitzilopochtli for human sacrifice. The Spanish Inquisition
is planning an even greater blood-letting.
Caught up in the headlong collision between two gods of war are Tozi,
Pepillo and the beautiful sex slave Malinal whose hatred of Moctezuma
runs so deep she will sell out her own land and people to destroy him.