Dr. Anya Sharma, a leading satellite oceanographer, uses cutting-edge technology to map the world’s most hidden depths. Her life is a world of data, simulations, and the cold, precise beauty of a planet seen from orbit. When a catastrophic submersible failure during a deep-sea trench expedition claims her life, she is thrown from the digital age into a world of wood, canvas, and rumor. She awakens as Filipe, a young, disgraced Portuguese apprentice on the docks of Seville in 1519. His only possession is a desperate, burning desire to join the audacious expedition of a driven and obsessed captain: Ferdinand Magellan. Filipe carries a secret that is both his greatest asset and a potential death sentence—Anya’s perfect, god’s-eye memory of the entire globe. He knows the true, terrifying vastness of the Pacific, the location of the elusive strait that will bear Magellan’s name, and the grim fate that awaits the captain and much of his crew. To survive, he must subtly guide the world’s greatest and most perilous voyage of discovery, navigating not only treacherous seas but also the suspicions of a crew who would see his impossible knowledge as proof of witchcraft or espionage.
