Bøger af David Sage

Before setting out for the Comanche grasslands with a herd of horses to trade, Tukor receives the medallion from his grandmother. Double crossed by the Comanche chief Crooked Horn, Tukor escapes death only by the intervention of the ancient piece of silver. Returning home with a strange slave he rescued, Tukor sets out to find the Great Water in the northwest that his great grandmother Lita sought more than 100 years before.

On the Summer Solstice, through the hole in the medallion Juan and Sophia see an ancient stone mason at work, but when they get to Great Grandfather he has no explanation of what it means. Now the twins begin to learn about Great Grandfather's past, an astonishing story which neither of them had any clue about.

At dawn on Winter Solstice, Juan and Sophia again see into the past through the square hole in the mysterious silver medallion. This time they witness a small band of travelers coming upon the body of a child in the desert. The twin's 100-year-old great grandfather explains that Adzul's grandson Cuto, the next heir of the medallion, was leading a group of Aztec adventurers north to seek a new life in Santa Fe. After establishing friendly relations with the local Pueblo Indians, Cuto's life is turned upside down when he encounters the sadistic Lt. Marquez. Forced to turn away from peaceful endeavors, the Aztecs must now engage in a desperate struggle to survive.

Juan and Sophia, 12 year old twins in southern Colorado, learn that they are the latest in a series of heirs to an ancient silver medallion. Adzul, the first book of the series, is the story of their ancestor who first comes into possession of the medallion and risks his life to save it.