1483: In the sun-baked city of Seville Jack Wynter is cursing his fortune. Sent here by his father Sir Thomas Vaughan - with a locked chest he has been ordered to guard with his life - Jack wonders if this mission was simply a ruse to get an illegitimate, inconvenient son out of the country. But when he learns that his father has been arrested for treason, Jack finds himself thrust into the heart of a deadly conspiracy. The New World Rising Series, Book 1.