Death of the Fifth Sun by Robert Somerlott - Paperback USED

A God and thirteen horses took possession of teh small kingdom of Veracruz on the twenty-third day of March in the year of our Lord 1519...

...Hernan Cortez, with less than 500 men, marched from the sea to bring the Aztec empire to its knees.  Beside him walked the woman who made it possible; the Spaniards called her Dona Marina, but her name was Malinche which means destruction.