The Hounds of Harujin: Episode 5

 A riot has consumed the town of Moonta, and Irbis is lucky to get out with her life. Now, rescuing her sister isn’t an option, and she has only one real choice: to escape her father, to be there for her sister, she’s going to have to join Courtenay as an imperial concubine....

In Perth, Prince Hülegü is dealing with another invasion of his prefecture, an attack that consumed the northern town of Geraldton; and attack that caught Adam and Moxie in its net....

And in the desert, more than a thousand kilometres north of her sister riding in to rescue her, Courtenay’s coach is ambushed, laid to waste in a bloodbath by a darkness so rare it’s barely more than myth: the Mongolian death worm. Now, their security gone, their guide and a number of concubines dead, Courtenay and three others are left to wander adrift in the vast Australian desert....

Episode 5 of 8.