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Windswept: a pirate story
Michael W. Fiedler
Empires demand obedience.
The sea offers revenge.
In the late seventeenth century, a Jewish girl is stripped of faith, family, and innocence when she is claimed by one of Spain’s most powerful men —- an architect of cruelty protected by crown, church, and the fires of the inquisition. He does not seduce her. He destroys her world, her faith, and her soul, and leaves survival as the only choice.
She becomes what the empire requires —- and learns to love the power it gives her.
But she never forgets the violent murder of her family. She never forgives it.
Her father, driven into exile and piracy, wages a private war against the empire who took everything from him, family, wealth, prestige, and above it all, his pride and joy, his brilliant, beautiful daughter. When they are finally reunited, revenge is no longer enough. What was done to them was done by an evil system. A single death will not balance the scales.
Together, father and daughter turn deception into weapon, piracy into insurgency, and the open sea into a battlefield against an empire that sanctified murder and called it faith.
Windswept is a dark, unsentimental novel of corruption embraced, identity reforged, and vengeance pursued not for justice —— but for ruin.
The fire remembers.
The sea does not forgive.
And empires bleed.
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