Much Fall Of Blood

Prince Manfred and his mentor and bodyguard, the deadly warrior Erik,
survived dangers and enemies both natural and supernatural, and if they thought
that their new mission was going to be anything but more of the same, they soon
gave up on that hope. Returning from Jerusalem, they and members of the knights
of the Holy Trinity are escorting an envoy of II Khan Mongol to the lands of the
Golden Horde - between the Black Sea and the Carpathians, which happen to
be eastern bastion against their old enemies, the demon Chernobog, and his
possessed puppet, the Jangellion. Unfortunately, what began as a diplomatic
mission leads to Manfred and his knights being caught up in an inter-clan civil
war, rescuing a fugitive woman and her injured brother, and becoming involved in
the problems of Prince Vlad, Duke of Valahia. Manfred and Erik are forced into
an alliance of convenience between the Golden Horde and the ancient magical
forces of Valahia, as directed by the troubled Vlad. The magic calls for blood
and Vlad is deathly afraid of it - and at the same time, is irresistibly
drawn toward it... Much Fall of Blood is the sequel to The Shadow of the Lion and
This Rough Magic in the Heirs of Alexandria
series.