Bøger af Rashid Dossett

Jasper attended the 12th anniversary of Leyden, the town where he grew up.At the celebration, he encountered his niece Elsbeth. Elsbeth and her friends invited him to join them on their trip to an abandoned British mansion nearby.The residents disappeared twenty-five years ago.Despite hesitation, Jasper joined his niece on her little adventure... something he would regret sooner than later...

After Spain's re-conquest of East-Florida, mestizo migrants from South America settled between St. Augustine and Saint Marys River (the border with the United States). Rahul, his wife Damaris, their children, and their servant Yuliya, settled in an abandoned village at the border. Rahul trained new soldiers, Damaris opened her own shop and Yuliya made American friends. Sudden events caused Damaris to doubt whether their family's migration was a good idea to begin with...

The Spanish Navy sentenced Patrick, a British sailor, to indentured labour in San Luis (St. Louis). During his sentence, he witnessed a double homicide. Despite his cooperation with the investigation, he became the prime suspect of both killings as well as the missing of Belle Guerra y Pontes. A Portuguese sailor, David, believed in Patrick's innocence. David's own investigation revealed various dark secrets about Spanish Louisiana...

When the governor of the Codfish colony dies, the colony is divided into captaincies that are governed from the Azores.The widow of the governor is suspected of involvementin her husband's death. This is soon forgotten when a Portuguese sailor becomes the new governor of a part of the Codfish colony which was named New Sintra. As part of his office he needs to marry and he selects the daughter of the former governor as his consort.This, however, was not a good idea...

During the early 1860s, some of the Guaján merchants sailed to Japan. Victoria (from the Portuguese community), and some of her Spanish friends, joined the business trip. In Tokyo, however, they were drawn into a local political conflict between the supporters and opposers of the Meiji reforms. They were arrested, on false charges, and scattered throughout the country. While the conflict escalated further, Victoria adapted to her new life in a remote village in the Japanese Alps. She joined a temple choir and she even made two friends. There was a dark side to this: her success, as a foreigner, also made her a target...

After the successful expedition of Malaspina, many mestizos from New Spain and Peru migrated to the southwestern pacific to populate the Spanish settlements. The viceroy of Peru appointed an audiencia, led by a captain, to govern the Spanish towns in Nova Zeelandia. Lydia, the niece of the captain, usurped and eventually replaced her paternal uncle when she realised the natives had a tradition of a female-centred leadership. Can she handle the conflicts between the Spanish settlers, the British competitors and the natives?

The wife of Danilo (the head of the Álvarez cartel) left him for a Brazilian lover. She also robbed half of the cartel's money before she vanished! Vincente, to both console his father-in-law and to bring closure for the family, searched for someone to replace Danilo's ex-wife. The cartel's financial woes caused the collapse of the economy. Civil unrest, riots and lootings followed within days. The viceroy of New Granada threatened to annex the colony if the (local) politicians failed to solve the crisis. At the yearly vice-regal beauty pageant, Vincente selected Giovana-who won the beauty contest of the Margarita province earlier that year. As the 'trophy wife' and new 'lady of the house' of society's ruling family, she enjoyed many privileges and a life of ease. At least, that is what it seemed unto outsiders...

After an agreement between Spain and Great Britain, colonists from England and Canada settle in the Spanish Kingdom of Oregon. Among them was the British Georgina (20) and her relatives. The Spanish, mestizos, natives and British lived side by side in harmony. The societal peace was disrupted when a fleet from the Qing dynasty occupied the Spanish and British ports. Meanwhile, Georgina was distracted by her horses.