It is the second half of the 17th century. The Dutch Golden Age is in its prime. Its global trade network is supreme. In England, Puritanism has been rejected with the restoration of the monarchy, but the creed lives on in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
In distant Indonesia a young girl narrowly escapes a violent fate at the hands of a tribal cult in the mountains of Sulawesi.
In Portsmouth, England, Martijn Van Der Heiden labors on a chain gang as a Dutch prisoner of war. When he is freed by Mary Preston, the daughter of a prostitute, she helps him to return to the Netherlands. But he soon learns that she is on a ruthless mission to control his life.
When he refuses her marriage proposal, she sabotages his modest happiness as well as his engagement to a beautiful Stoic girl. She vaults him up the ranks of the Dutch East India Company at the expense of anyone in his way. He despairs that no one else in the world seems to be able to spot her for what she is until it is too late.
When this diabolical girl is brought into contact with an ancient evil power in the East Indies, she seems impossible to oppose. From the stock market, to overseas trade, to the justice of Puritan Massachusetts, there is nothing she cannot manipulate. It is up to him to stop her before she destroys everyone he loves.
In distant Indonesia a young girl narrowly escapes a violent fate at the hands of a tribal cult in the mountains of Sulawesi.
In Portsmouth, England, Martijn Van Der Heiden labors on a chain gang as a Dutch prisoner of war. When he is freed by Mary Preston, the daughter of a prostitute, she helps him to return to the Netherlands. But he soon learns that she is on a ruthless mission to control his life.
When he refuses her marriage proposal, she sabotages his modest happiness as well as his engagement to a beautiful Stoic girl. She vaults him up the ranks of the Dutch East India Company at the expense of anyone in his way. He despairs that no one else in the world seems to be able to spot her for what she is until it is too late.
When this diabolical girl is brought into contact with an ancient evil power in the East Indies, she seems impossible to oppose. From the stock market, to overseas trade, to the justice of Puritan Massachusetts, there is nothing she cannot manipulate. It is up to him to stop her before she destroys everyone he loves.
