1669 and beyond
A Generation On
The children of the founding inherit its debts.
Seventeen years later the outpost has become a colony with a memory. Old loyalties harden into grudges, and a new generation reckons with the world their parents built at the Cape.
Set in this era
The books.
Blood of the Covenant
Seventeen years on, Sebastiaan returns to the Cape — into a web spun by an old and vengeful enemy.
From the journal
Writing from the period.
June 1, 2026
A generation of storms
On writing the third book: how a founding myth curdles into inheritance, and why the children pay for it.
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