Belmonte

Bradley, John Harris: - John Harris Bradley is an American author of historical fiction residing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his extended family. With extensive travel and residence in Iberia and South America and long-time study of Native American heritage, Bradley puts this to use in a two-part series beginning in Belmont, Portugal in 1565. Here, Destiny weaves tight the fate of three young Portuguese Jews and an older Spanish Gypsy. All must flee the Iberian Inquisition for the New World, but first all must participate in one last act; the rendering of Justice for a murderer. In the sequel to Belmonte, called Joara, the four take part in Spain's first and only attempt to colonize the Mid-Atlantic area of North America. The book culminates with the destruction of the Spanish Fort of San Juan in the Catawba Indian village of Joara in 1568, and the adventurers of the four, as sole survivors of the calamity.