An American Soul Hunter in King Herod's Court (The Mercantile Chronicles Book 4)

When a sorcerer of the Tikatu Brotherhood escapes into the past, U.S. Marshal Jim Mercantile follows. But no sooner does Jim arrive at his destination, somewhere in first century Judea, than he finds himself embroiled in an ages-old conflict, with Jewish Zealots on one side and their Roman overlords on the other. But to Jim, this war is a distraction. The greater danger is the M’chival, the device that brought Jim and the sorcerer into the past. If the sorcerer recovers the M’chival first and is able to invoke its power, he will remake the past, creating an alternate history in which Christianity and the God it serves does not exist. So Jim embarks on his own race, to destroy the M’chival and deny the sorcerer his ambitions. But little does he realize that his arrival has brought the sorcerer everything he needs to invoke the M’chival and that the fulfillment of prophecy is much closer than he thinks.