Three naïve young Welshmen travel with an unscrupulous French trader on a perilous two-thousand-mile journey to Constantinople for a magic Bloodstone to bring back the rain and save their drought-stricken village.
Now, less than halfway, with one dead and one lost, only two remain to finish the quest, find the Bloodstone, and save the village.
In Book Two, the travelers cross the bandit-plagued lands and survive the grim forests of Central Europe to reach Constantinople where war, betrayal, and death await.