Publisher: Avon Books UK, September 1, 2022

Format: ebook

Pages: 400

Rating: 4/5 stars

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Can a map from the past reveal the path to the future?

A rediscovered map…

Present day: After a tragic event froze her life seven years ago, Robyn is now focused on helping her father’s map shop as she struggles to heal. But when she discovers an exquisite map from the Tudor period, mysteriously ringed with a splatter of blood and whose creator is unknown, Robyn finds herself caught in a centuries-old mystery. One that will send her halfway across the world to London and then Amsterdam in search of the truth. A truth that could hold the key to changing her life forever.

A lady cartographer…
1569: After being forced to flee her home, Frieda is determined to start over in London, England and keep her family safe by continuing the family trade of map drawing. Through her rare and skilled work, she catches the eye of the royal monarch Queen Elizabeth I who demands her and her sea captain husband’s help with the Crown’s battle against the Spanish King Philip. And so Freida embarks on a dangerous quest, one that will lead her to discover, the ultimate danger can happen even across the seas…

Two women, centuries apart. Can one mysterious treasure bring them together?

My Review:

Thank you Avon Books UK for the copy of this book.
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Read if you like: dual timelines.
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Frieda comes from a famous mapmaking family in Holland, who flees to England due to the Spanish persecuting Huguenots. In England, she catches the eye of Queen Elizabeth I and is commissioned to make a map for her. Then in the present, we have Robyn who finds the map and investigates the history behind it.
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I loved reading about Frieda and her family. I think I am a little done with the dual-timeline historical fiction. I just don’t care about the present timelines and find that it takes away from the historical story.
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I do love Elizabethan history and enjoy reading about that time period!
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CW: death of parents, death of a spouse, violence, stabbing, religious persecution, placing a child in danger, drowning.