HarperCollins, 2024

God cast man out of Eden and placed cherubim to the east, along with a flaming sword that turned to guard the way to the Tree.

This is the story of the thrilling journey that Fernando Corregidor y Valiente embarks on in 1493 in search of the lost Tree of Paradise. Guided by an ancient map, he begins his adventure at the luxurious court of Naples, confronts his dark past in Cádiz, and then leaps into the edge of the known world. In the perilous Gran Canaria, a frontier land of fortune-seekers and adventurers, he will board on the second voyage of Admiral Columbus to the Indies.

This is also the story of Daida, the rebellious Canarian; of the inquisitor Friar Tomás de Torquemada; and of the Arab sayyida Hessa Buneder, daughter and granddaughter of astronomers.

Along Fernando’s path, not only do murderers, slavers, and the fearsome “cannibal” natives stand in his way, but also a shadow: a man named Conrado Racú, who seeks the Tree of Knowledge and, like Fernando himself, has blood on his hands.

Fernando will discover his destiny beyond the seas and the monsters that inhabit the maps. The former killer, the dark man who once lost his way, is about to confront himself.