Instituting the infamous Blood Covenant, its priests drag thousands of people a year atop temple pyramids and rip their hearts beating from their chests. But he also faces war, catastrophic drought, betrayal and the rise of an evil death cult religion. Gathering artists, scientists and craftsmen, this legendary ruler builds a city that will awe humanity for one thousand years. Gifted in math and astronomy, Coyotl rises to king s counselor in Tula, a golden city of milk and honey ruled by the brilliant god king, Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent of lore. A young Aztec Mayan slave tells us its story. In ancient Mexico, the End Time Codex prophesizing the world’s end in 2012 is entombed. Marina…Ī gorgeous pure blood Aztec, she knows too well the oppressor s rape and pillage of her people. Father Hidalgo…Ĭan a man of God take up the sword and lead a people by the hundreds of thousands into a bloody revolution he cannot control?Raquel…Īttractive, sensuous, erudite, she challenges Juan with her mind and her body. Instinctively wicked, sinfully seductive.

Zavala will be swept from glittering Mexico City to snake and croc infested jungles, to lost Mayan civilizations to the torture chambers of the Inquisition, to beautiful Barcelona and the bloody carnage of Napoleon s war in Spain, to the bloodiest and most spectacular of New Spain s colonial Mexico revolutions. Especially if a shocking secret from Zavala s lurid past is exposed a secret so lethal to the Spanish Crown it threatens their very existence. No one, including Juan de Zavala could stay neutral. As a warrior priest leads an Aztec revolt, across the ocean in Spain courageous people battle Napoleon’s invading armies. Now valiant men and fearless women rise and battle their brutal overlords. But the magnificent Aztec empire, its grand cities and riches lay broken under the Spanish boot… Don Juan de Zavala was the most skilled fighter in all of New Spain as gifted with weapons and horses as he was with women. The fascinating history of Mexico that began in the 1 New York Times bestselling novel Aztec continues…

Aztec rage