The second novel in the Tissue of Deception Trilogy, titled  "The Red Horseman"... revolves around a large, seventy-carat, blood-red Garnet said, in ancient legend, to have been mounted in the sword pommel of an unspeakably evil Entity who was called by name: "Baelar... Lord of The Underdark," and whispered to be a conduit to his malignant will to unleash his "Night of Shadows Rising," which will turn all back to Chaos, as it was in the beginnings of time itself. Those who had possessed the beautiful Garnet gem imagined that the flickering spark in its heart was merely a reflection of the light... but the young German archaeologist, Karyn Helle von Seringen knows otherwise. She is aware that it is the manifestation of the pestilential will of a legendary Dreadful Dark Entity that was once called "Baelar"... "Lord of The Underdark."Her adventures begin here, as she strives to track down the whereabouts of the malignant Gem that has come to be known as "The Red Horseman," and is whispered to be "A Destroyer of Worlds." It was inadvertently released from its ancient, sealed metallic prison by a toolmaker in the machine shops of Krupps Armaments in Essen, Germany on the eve of The Second World War.Five terrible years have now passed since the stone was unleashed. Karyn's ongoing quest is to seek out this dreadful Garnet and destroy it before it wreaks its evil, destructive power upon Mankind once again.