The Mapmakers’ Secret, Vol. 2: Storm the Pacific!

Apollonia’s journey continues in this second volume, taking her into the turbulent and unexplored waters of the Pacific!

Welcome aboard the good ship Hope. The year is 1629.

Although forced to abandon her disguise as a monk, Apollonia nevertheless keeps up her façade of being a man. This time, she pretends to be a painter, the better to freely indulge her passion.

Under guidance from the merchant Cornélius, she and her companions pursue their journey far from Europe. In search of a hidden continent in the Pacific, they take a perilous new route that leads them to previously unknown archipelagos and the suspicion that the world is far larger than first imagined…

What fascinating peoples, friend and foe alike, will they encounter? Will they fulfill their destinies at the far end of the world? And will Apollonia be able to reconcile budding love and the impossibility of revealing her identity as a woman, given the brutal nature of life on a ship?