1492

On a gray shore near Palos, Jayme de Marchena wonders whether to let the tide choose his death. Then the ocean seems to answer: No.

Spain in 1492 is turning dangerous for anyone suspected of Jewish ties—or of thinking too freely. Jayme is a Christian scholar, but his grandmother was Jewish, and his enemies have made that inheritance a weapon; with the Inquisition closing in, even a kindly kinsman at the convent of La Rábida can offer little more than advice to flee. Yet Africa is not the way Jayme’s gaze is drawn. Beyond the familiar sea lies a vastness without sails, full of peril and possibility. What waits beyond that pale horizon?

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