Spontaneous Mummification

John Harris Bradley is an American author of historical fiction residing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his extended family. With residence and extensive travel in Iberia and South America and long-time study of Native American heritage in North Carolina, Bradley puts this to use in a two-part series beginning in Belmonte, Portugal in 1565 and ending in the destruction of the Spanish Fort of San Juan in the Catawba Indian village of Joara in 1568. This was Spain's first and only attempt to colonize the Mid-Atlantic area of North America during the 16th century. Joara, Tale of the New World was published in 2021. Another work by John Bradley, Ghost Fields, was published in 2022.