The Spanish Main: Martin Silvereye Trilogy I
One destiny, the remote Spanish Mainland. One dream, freedom. But nothing could make Katherina Solis suspect when she embarked on the Spanish fleet bound for the Caribbean, which on the other side of the ocean would find a New World full of dangers and challenges. To save herself, the young woman will have to adopt the personality of her young brother Martin, who died when the ship was being attacked by English pirates.After two years on a desert island and posing as his brother, she will become Martin Nevares, the adopted son of a merchant from Tierra Firme, starting the exciting journey that, along the three books of this Trilogy, it will take her to become Martin Silvereye, one of the biggest smugglers who sailed the seas at the beginning of the 17th century.Asensi’s novel gives us a view on a part of history that we rarely read about. It offers insight into the society of the Spanish colonies a century after Columbus discovered the New World. How people lived and struggled to survive in a rough environment.The three books of Martin Silvereye Trilogy are The Spanish Main (2007), Vengeance in Seville (2010) and The Cortés Conspiracy (2012).