SEVENTEEN
REVELATION
In the year 1630, Tamsyn arrived in the fledgling colony of New Amsterdam.
The Dutch West India Company had established the colony two years earlier after purchasing the isle of Manhattan from the natives. With the discovery of the New World, scores of colonists from Europe were sailing across the Atlantic. For those insightful enough to see it, the new continent spoke of opportunities and untold wealth. It was virgin land, untouched with untapped resources. Unlike the rest of the world, already divided into pieces by the dominant powers, the New World was unclaimed territory.
It was also the perfect place for those with something to hide.
For twenty years, he searched. He crossed the cold, imperialistic lands of Europe and entered the dry, parched deserts of Arab
