1492

Spain, 1492. The year everything changes. Jayme de Marchena carries a secret that could kill him: Jewish blood in an era of the Inquisition's fire. A scholar haunted by his ancestry, he moves through a Spain tearing itself apart between faith and intolerance, between the old world and the new. When the expelled Jews flee and Christopher Columbus sails into the unknown, Jayme faces an impossible choice. Stay and burn, or chase horizons where identity might mean nothing or everything. Mary Johnston weaves a tale of one man's struggle to survive history's most turbulent year, when empire, faith, and discovery collided on the edge of the ocean. This is historical fiction for anyone who wonders what it cost to belong, or to escape, in an age when simply existing as yourself was an act of defiance.