In this last book ofThe Tattooed Witchtrilogy, Miriam, Joach n, and Alonso finally reach the New World. Here, their destinies are larger than any of them could have dreamed. They also learn a hard truth-the fulfilment of love is not without its sacrifice.
Sick at heart because her husband, Joach n, is captive on a slave ship bound for the New World, Miriam finds her own crossing of the Great Ocean Sea, with its lack of privacy and vermin infested quarters, the least of her troubles. The crew suspect witchcraft of her and her ragtag tribe of Diaphani. Alonso, her ghostly love, does what he can to help, but at a growing, personal cost. As for Joach n, his situation improves little when his slave ship is taken by pirates off the coast of Afrik. Still in hot pursuit, Tom s, the Grand Inquisitor, hunts them both, sailing for Xaymaca with his pet sorceress Rana, and abokor, (a voodoo sorcerer) who takes their blood magic to a new, diabolical level.