Mikel, a young merchant with the East India Trading Company, always considered fortune to be his mistress...until the Amboyan Massacre. The Dutch spare his life, but he’s forced into the deep jungles of South America to act as bait for a hidden menace picking off their scouts one by one. It works all too a demonic horde, drawn into the open, annihilates the entire Dutch battalion, leaving Mikel running for his life. As he flees from the grisly battlefield, he falls in with the only other survivor of the demon attack, a Portuguese army scout named Raphael. Together, they scramble to escape the dangers of an impenetrable jungle, the pursuing demons, and their masters, a shadowy group of cultists intent on destroying the world. Exhausted and disoriented, Mikel and Raphael are drawn to a mysterious stranger. But his gifts come with a accept their destiny to fight against the darkness or allow it to consume humanity. Light's Dawn is a stand-alone prequel to the Light in the Darkness historical fantasy series.