Solomon Kane bids farewell to the Jahaz Mahal with his old friends and sets his course eastward, urged by his Atlantean stave and a mysterious black-maned lion. But the road is not without peril: Mughal guardsman bar the way, and only the combined might of the lion's fury, Kane's flintrocks, and Abramo Bensaid's occult arts see them through.
It is a taste of what is to come. As the Army of the Two Khans marches on Gondwana, Rani Durgavati prepares for the coming war. Then, led by Somnadi the Lion, Kane and his companions burst through the doors of the Gond war council - and Durgavati recognizes in the lion the beast she knew from long ago, proof that providence has brought them all together...
