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Jasper attended the 12th anniversary of Leyden, the town where he grew up. At the celebration, he encountered his niece Elsbeth. Elsbeth and her friends invited him to join them on their trip to an abandoned British mansion nearby. The residents disappeared twenty-five years ago. Despite hesitation, Jasper joined his niece on her little adventure... something he would regret sooner than later...

After Spain's re-conquest of East-Florida, mestizo migrants from South America settled between St. Augustine and Saint Marys River (the border with the United States). Rahul, his wife Damaris, their children, and their servant Yuliya, settled in an abandoned village at the border. Rahul trained new soldiers, Damaris opened her own shop and Yuliya made American friends. Sudden events caused Damaris to doubt whether their family's migration was ...

The Spanish Navy sentenced Patrick, a British sailor, to indentured labour in San Luis (St. Louis). During his sentence, he witnessed a double homicide. Despite his cooperation with the investigation, he became the prime suspect of both killings as well as the missing of Belle Guerra y Pontes. A Portuguese sailor, David, believed in Patrick's innocence. David's own investigation revealed various dark secrets about Spanish Louisiana...

Eunyeong is a Sillan girl who was captured by the army of the Yamatai confederation as a spoil of war. As a result she ended up as a slave in the palace of the shaman-Empress Himiko. After two years she is returned back to King Isageum of Silla, on the command of Himiko, to work as a hostess for an envoy from Gaul.

Andrés, a Portuguese librarian, married the daughter of an Anglo-French farmer. During their honeymoon, his sister-in-law, Natalia, discovered the secret of her parent's property...

A bundle of short historical thrillers situated in the 2nd and 3th century AD.

When the governor of the Codfish colony dies, the colony is divided into captaincies that are governed from the Azores. The widow of the governor is suspected of involvement in her husband's death. This is soon forgotten when a Portuguese sailor becomes the new governor of a part of the Codfish colony which was named New Sintra. As part of his office he needs to marry and he selects the daughter of the former governor as his consort. This, ...

With the sudden declaration of independence, the farmers in San Salvador lost all their subsidies from the Crown. To compensate, several locals plotted to loot the wealthy Spaniards amongst them. A local jeweller came with a plan to undo the unrest caused by the unexpected change.

Sixteen years after Fiona Rodrigues moved to Quilmes, local society shunned the (former) Spanish duchess. To make peace, she pledged allegiance to the Argentine Confederation. For a moment, it appeared as if she was accepted by the community. However, soon the public demanded a sacrifice from her to prove her loyalty...

After receiving reports from several spies, the intendent of the Spanish Essequibo district occupied the Dutch settlements in Guyana. Many Venezuelans and New Granadans praised his move to 'defend Spain against the British and the Dutch'. His move, however, also caused much controversy among foreigners in Spanish America. While Mirte, his Dutch wife, spent summer with her parents in the occupied territory, she developed second thoughts about h...

Vera, born to a Spanish father, won the beauty contest of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the former colony had much difficulty recovering from the exhausting war of independence. After the pageant, the state appointed Vera's father as a minister . His job was to secure profitable trade deals with Spain. Paulo, who was a bit naive, did not see that his promotion was a trap to distract the people from seeing what was really going on.

During a ball in Guadalajara, two politicians went missing. After a week, their bodies were found. The news alarmed the Viceroy, the vice-regal ministers and the people of New Galicia. The detectives suspect a mestizo duke of involvement. The daughter of this duke, Fiona, was not even aware of all that happened. She was a 'party girl' having a good time with her cousins and friends in Guatemala City. Until, she also became a suspect...

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During the early 1860s, some of the Guaján merchants sailed to Japan. Victoria (from the Portuguese community), and some of her Spanish friends, joined the business trip. In Tokyo, however, they were drawn into a local political conflict between the supporters and opposers of the Meiji reforms. They were arrested, on false charges, and scattered throughout the country. While the conflict escalated further, Victoria adapted to her new life in a...

All hell broke loose after Kevin, Louisa's brother, disappeared. The case revealed much hidden conflict in the migrant community of Cuba. Meanwhile, Louisa's friends noticed that the young American lady needed a fresh new start.This fresh new start came after she suddenly left Santa Clara, her place of birth. However, she figured out the hard way that escaping would not be that easy...

The stagnating economy of Yucatán was briefly revived by the export to the United States. Several Spaniards moved to the Kingdom due to its booming economy. A mestizo woman, Huelva, was removed from her home due to the construction of a road that required the demolishment of her home village. It was only after she moved to Mérida, that she realised that her loss was actually a blessing in disguise.

Following the defeat of Napoleon, many Frenchmen, who fled to the Americas, return to their homeland. Several families from Bordeaux, Nantes and Toulouse remained in Guatemala where they settled near Tegucigalpa. The French migrants rent land from Amalia, the widow of a Spanish knight. Amalia spend her days, with her pets, wandering in her castle and private gardens. Her life suddenly changed when some of her renters were arrested for planning...

A Spanish diplomat is burdened to inform Swedish and Norwegian investors that, due to the independence and collapse of Central America, they lost all their investments in the former Kingdom of Guatemala. After informing the Norwegian leaders, he wanted to leave immediately. However, his daughter found reasons not to return to Spain.

After an agreement between Spain and Great Britain, colonists from England and Canada settle in the Spanish Kingdom of Oregon. Among them was the British Georgina (20) and her relatives. The Spanish, mestizos, natives and British lived side by side in harmony. The societal peace was disrupted when a fleet from the Qing dynasty occupied the Spanish and British ports. Meanwhile, Georgina was distracted by her horses.

After the successful expedition of Malaspina, many mestizos from New Spain and Peru migrated to the southwestern pacific to populate the Spanish settlements. The viceroy of Peru appointed an audiencia, led by a captain, to govern the Spanish towns in Nova Zeelandia. Lydia, the niece of the captain, usurped and eventually replaced her paternal uncle when she realised the natives had a tradition of a female-centred leadership. Can she handle the...