Chris Roberson1810. While Europe burns and the Napoleonic Wars set the world aflame, the HMS Fortitude patrols the sea lanes of the South Pacific, harrying the enemies of the British Crown. The Fortitude’s captain has set his sights on a Spanish galleon weighted down with a fortune in gold and spices, but Lieutenant Hieronymus Bonaventure thinks the prize not worth the risk.
When the ship is smashed by storms and driven far into unknown seas, the galleon and her treasure lost in the tempest, Bonaventure and the rest of the Fortitude’s crew find themselves aground on an island in uncharted waters. They soon discover that beneath the island’s veneer of beauty lurks a dark secret: an ancient evil buried at the living heart of a volcano.
"Chris Roberson is one of that bold band of young writers who are taking the stuff of genre fiction and turning it into a whole new literary form - a form for the 21st century. A talented storyteller, he has a unique ear, a clever eye, an eloquence all too rare in modern fiction."
- Michael Moorcock
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