What happens when a prince loses everything a prince is supposed to have?
Prince of the West follows Iudila, a twelve-year-old Visigothic royal enslaved by pirates and forged, over years of captivity, into someone his old titles never could have made him. When a shipwreck strands him on a shore no European map has ever recorded, he collides with Chakin, a Maya princess fighting her own uncle for the right to rule her people.
What they find together is bigger than either of their kingdoms: an ancient, shared bloodline that ties the Old World to the New long before either civilization knew the other existed.
This is historical adventure without the polish: gritty, unsentimental, and honest about what survival costs. Readers of Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Stories and Gary Jennings’s Aztec will find a story that doesn’t flinch from what empire, captivity and conquest actually looked like on both sides of the ocean.
Previously published as Son of the Sea, Daughter of the Sun.