The Spirit of the Times

Synopsis

In fourteenth-century Central Asia, Karia lives under the yoke of Mongol occupation. She sees strange purple skies at dawn and, soon after, the pestilence ravages her village. To escape, she saves Abi, her sister's newborn, and joins a caravan on the Silk Road. Even as Karia struggles to accept her powers of premonition, she conjures a protection around each city the caravan visits - to keep out the Black Death. But each time it breaches her supernatural ring and she's chased further west into Europe where fresh jeopardy awaits.