Conrad and the Gallows' Maid

“The day the Gallows’ Maid darkens my door will be his last.”

Conrad the blacksmith has carved a life for his family on the hostile shores of a distant land. Through snakebite, plague, and blistering sun – only one daughter, his beloved Inez, has survived.

But when news arrived that Laurens de Graaf has sacked Cartagena, the settlers know the Pirate King will steal not only their belongings, but their men.

With a pressgang led by the merciless buccaneer known as the Gallows’ Maid bearing down, Conrad faces a terrible choice: to run, or to fight.

The latest story from the world of the Five Barrios is a tale of courage against all odds, in the time when every day was a fight for survival.