Conqueror E2: The Cold Face
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Sent to live among his mother's people, twelve-year-old Temujin learns that a betrothal to the fierce, untamed Borte comes bundled with a year of beatings, scorn, and the rule his father drilled into him: never let them see you flinch. But as the boy swallows his fury in a stranger's ger, Yesugei rides home alone into a Tartar ambush—and discovers his enemies poisoned their blades for a khan who killed the wrong man's son.
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