"It is the nineteenth year of the reign of the judges among the confederated people of Nephi and Mulek. It is the calendar day called Two Imiix, the second day of the new year. A day that portends faith and action--and treachery!"
So begins the second volume in the amazing 30-volume Keystone Series with the setting of the sun on the previous momentous day, One Imix. The first day of the new year, the second day awakens to the embrace of darkness..a time when men and women who love the night and all that it portends and allows frequent and frolic in the shadows the darken the Land of Zarahemla...and are often up to little or no good.
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What makes Lord AmAalakYah's romantic affairs with both of his chief lieutenants' wives so dangerous is that they are the wives of chief lieutenants who do not recognize that they are lieutenants. They are men who regard themselves as being in every way the equal of the great man. And therein lies the difficulty that is bound to see the unraveling of all his schemes. Never mind that he has pitted himself against his cousins and arch foils, General MorOni of the Nephite-Mulekite armies and HeLaman the newly set-apart chief high priest of the Church of the Lamb of God.
Never mind that he has aligned himself against the more respectable and prudent elements of Zarahemlan society, and even favors a return to kingship in the face of popular democratic rule of the judges, in place these eighteen years. And never mind even that AmAalakYah's every act runs counter to the wishes of the Very Father of Heaven and Earth, or that he is very much in league with the Arch Adversary and Deceiver himself