San José Saga: Book 3 - Battle at Cartagena

Where Sails of Destiny charted peril on open seas, Battle at Cartagena erupts into fire, betrayal, and the shattering of legacies. As the San José reaches the colonial stronghold of Cartagena, the walls of empire tremble. Pirates strike under a false flag. Gunpowder splits the sky. Amid the chaos, Isabella Miró-once forbidden to even stand on deck-rises from stowaway to commander, her resolve forged in cannon smoke and collapsing loyalties. She is no longer just her father's daughter-she is the voice of the dying and the last light of the damned.

Captain Rafael Cortés, haunted yet unyielding, leads his men into the teeth of a siege. Fireships light the harbor as betrayal severs the chain of command. Rafael makes a fatal decision-one born not of duty, but love. To save Isabella, he sacrifices everything. The San José, pride of the fleet, is engulfed in flame and vanishes into the deep, its treasure lost, its story fragmented by water and war.

At dawn, as the ocean settles and the ruined port smolders, only one figure stumbles ashore. Isabella clutches a single gold coin and the searing truth: the ship is gone, Rafael is lost, and history has begun a new kind of war-one that will be fought not with cannons, but with memory.