At age 19, Hernan Cortes, an only son, begins a journey from Spain to The New World to the east. After disappointing his parents while attending the university in Salamanca, his father gave him a choice; he could join in the war in Italy or leave to a 'New World' in the West Indies. The reader will take a journey to Hispaniola in 1504 where Cortes made a profitable new life. After 8 years as an accountant, he, with another Castilian fortune hunter, Diego Velazquez, moved from Hispaniola to Cuba where the native Taino were suppressed. After building resources and an apparently loveless...

Heaven and Hell, good and evil - this is the tale of a war beginning before the dawn of time. Travel into a land of immense beauty led by Un-Ra, Satan's head general, only to plunge into the greatest depths of despair and hopelessness. Those who venture on this journey will confront the conflicting views of right and wrong.

In opening this manuscript, the reader finds five soldiers hiding in a cold mountain cabin. The main character, Mihail, a captain, tells a tale of two Transylvanian boys, one a Saxon and the other a Romanian, in their journey to the city catch a glimpse of their new prince of Walachia. The two boys will join the Christian forces of Prince Vlad Dracula of Transylvania and see and feel its times. The story will reveal customs, religious practices, and accounts of the Balkans in a fifteenth century Europe and demonstrate why some feuds started and still last today. Based on well-researched and...