The Conquistadors Trilogy

The Conquistadors Trilogy is a sweeping historical fiction epic that explores the violent and horrific Spanish Conquest of the New World from the years 1527 to 1542. Told through the eyes of a Spanish soldier named Sardina, each journey, from the jungles of Peru, through the vast Arizona deserts, and finally to the great Mississippi River, brutally reveals the traumatic events of the Spanish Conquest of the Natives of the Americas. But each story also depicts the beauty and bravery of these people, and the unyielding courage of each tribe, kingdom, and village.

In the dense jungles of 1530 Peru, King Manco Inca finds himself in a hell that he cannot escape. The evil and vicious Pizarro Brothers and their fellow Spanish conquistadors have wreaked havoc on his lands and have conquered his kingdom. A violently real portrayal of the Spanish Conquest of the New World, Brothers and Kings is an epic historical-fiction thriller that presents men at their best and their most cruel.

After hearing endless rumors of the Seven Cities of Gold and Sardina’s tale of Peru, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado sets forth an Entrada of his own. However, the harsh and unexplored territories of the Arizona desert gives no quarter and proves to be just as cruel as the conquistadors themselves. Hopeless and lost, the Spanish miraculously find a strange mystical shaman they name “The Turk” who knows the whereabouts of these illustrious cities and promises to lead them there. They simply must pass through another hell.

Still plagued and damaged by the desert, Sardina follows the River’s End to find his soul. But before he gets there, he finds his old comrade from Peru: Hernando de Soto, a ruthless man of pure evil. They play the final chess game of their lives. But as the game continues, Sardina discovers that Soto is currently in charge of expedition of his own. And as the bloody, savage quest for glory and gold down the Mississippi River continues, the tribes and kingdoms of La Florida, Cofitacheque, Coosa, and Tuscaloosa, will never be the same.