This is a very interesting tale of bravery during the Spanish Inquisition. I've had this arc sitting around for quite a while so I not sure why I waited until now to start reading it. It follows the story of a young girl named Guiomar who finds out she is Jewish while her mother is on her deathbed. This is also a troubllibg time when the Jews are being persecuted. From there she will have to embark on a journey of a different life than the one that she lived before.

I enjoyed this novel very much! The reader experiences what it was like to live under the Inquisition in Sevilla in the 16th century. So much fear!!! The kingdom had already got rid of the Moors and now the Jewish community is dran. The inquisitor looked for proofs more often than not based on rumours... Simply incredible! I liked the characters who strove and struggled to hide their faith. They were very relatable and felt with them. The novel is based on the author's family which makes this story even more worthwhile...
I received a digital copy of this novel from NetGalley and I have voluntarily written an honest review.

I probably shouldn't have requested this, as I am a professor of History and specialize in this time period in Spanish history. The author claims she did a lot of research, but also says in the forward that there are few books on conversos, which is laughable. There are SO many books on this group of people, but if you don't go to a university library, you won't find them. She makes the mistake of thinking converso = Jew, which is not necessarily true, and that mistake made the whole book unpalatable for me. It has all the usual tropes of bloodthirsty sadistic Catholics and victimized Jews. and the historical research tells us that this is a gross over simplification of what the culture was like.