One destiny, the remote Caribbean isles. One dream, freedom. The sixteen-year-old Catalina Solis is bound to the Caribbean island of Margarita to live with her husband Domingo Rodríguez, when the ship is being attacked by English pirates. To save herself, she jumps off board wearing the clothes of her brother who had been travelling with her. After two years on an isolated island, she’s rescued by the merchant Esteban Nevares. To escape her mentally impaired husband, she strickes a deal with Nevares to be the son he never had, Martín Nevares. Together they embark on an extraordinary adventure on the Chacona (Nevares’s ship) as traders in the ports of the Caribbean and as arms smugglers for the cimmarones (free slaves) living in Spanish Mainland. This was the name in Spain’s colonial times given to Venezuela, the Isthmus of Panama and part of Colombia which was a province of New Granada. Asensi’s novel is very entertaining and gives us a view on a part of history that we rarely read about. It offers insight into the society of the Spanish colonies a century after Columbus discovered the New World. How people lived and struggled to survive in a rough environment. In those days, the commercial administration was established in Sevilla. Over 400.000 copies sold in Spanish by the so called ‘Queen of the Spanish Adventure Fiction,' one of the top writers in Spanish language, and author of the bestseller The Last Cato.

Sevilla 1607- In this exciting novel, Catalina Solis - the intrepid protagonist from The Spanish Main, the first part of the Trilogy Martín Silverey – is to take her revenge in one of the wealthiest and most important cities of the world, the Spanish city of Seville. She will keep the promise she made to her adoptive father, Esteban Nevares, and eliminate the Curvo brothers. Her spectacular vengeance involves trick, seduction, force, surprise, duels, betting and medicine. In this hazardous adventure, Catalina is accompanied by her friends from The Spanish Main and some crafty servants, always willing to risk their lives for such a legendary figure. Over 300.000 copies sold in Spanish by the so called ‘Queen of the Spanish Adventure Fiction,' one of the top writers in Spanish language, and author of the bestseller The Last Cato.

With The Cortes Conspiracy, the last book in the trilogy Martín Silvereye, Matilde Asensi reaches the climax of her journey through the Spanish Golden Age, from the perspective, this time, of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. These exciting pages narrate the intrigues and the political and economic relationships which, from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, pointed at the Spanish Crown, providing the reader with a better understanding of this stage of history. In this eagerly awaited novel, Catalina Solis is forced to unmask a plot which has been hatched by her enemies to overthrow the king of Spain. Once again the protagonist of the novel will have to confront noblemen from Seville and enemies she thought she had already defeated. The appearance of a map, which shows where the treasure of Hernan Cortes is lying, will play a key role in Catalina’s plan to unmask the traitors and keep her Word of ruining the Curvos. The doublé personality Catalina Solis/Martín Nevares will not only confront her/his opponents, but also a serious threaten for her. Over 300.000 copies sold in Spanish by the so called ‘Queen of the Spanish Adventure Fiction,' one of the top writers in Spanish language, and author of the bestseller The Last Cato.