WINNER 2025 Independent Press Award – Humor Join a hilarious, swashbuckling adventure, teeming with betrayal, romance, murder, sea battles. Between the final breath of the Spanish Inquisition, and Magellan’s epic voyage, join unintended explorer, Lanning Delaford, plus an eclectic cast of characters including Ignatius Loyola, Ferdinand Magellan, (mostly) evil pirates, a mediocre Portuguese butcher, an alluring, bad-ass courtesan, and a peregrine falcon named Doug, as they traverse southern Europe onto the unknown Great Sea. A spellbinding story of success and failure on death and fortune on the high seas.