From the author of the worldwide bestseller "The Physician" comes Spain 1492: The Inquisition is raging throughout the country. Jona, the thirteen-year-old son of a Jewish silversmith, is left completely alone after the murder of his brother and the death of his father. He decides to defy the Inquisition and sets out on his own. After an odyssey across Spain, he eventually reaches an old physician in Zaragoza years later. There, he realizes that the healing arts are his true calling.