Cádiz, 1492 · A novel · Coming December 2026
In a city ruled by ink, one signature decides who may stay.
When Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand sign a royal decree forcing Spain’s Jews to convert or leave, a young healer must choose between exile and the baptismal font, and between the woman she was and the one the city will allow her to become.
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The story
A new name. An old faith. An ocean between them.
Cádiz, 1492. Nothing enters this harbor city without documentation, and nothing leaves without being named. Now a decree from the Alhambra has given the Jews of Castile and Aragón a choice: leave everything behind, or kneel at the font and stay.
Ya’el has spent her girlhood balancing her father’s debt book and learning to heal at the side of Ali, a Muslim physician who treats every patient regardless of creed. As her family’s world is liquidated into coins and passage, she makes the choice no one expected of her, and receives a name she does not yet know how to wear.
But in a city of watchful neighbors, a baptism is only the beginning of being seen. And when Alonso de Santillán, a merchant’s nephew who noticed her too closely, is ordered to sail for the new colony of Hispaniola, the crossing ahead may carry her farther from herself, or closer, than she ever imagined.
Spanning five centuries, from the harbor of Cádiz to a hidden grave on the Cuban shore, Between Worlds is a story of faith kept in secret, healing across borders, and a woman who refused to disappear.
What waits inside
Two worlds. One life written across both.
The Decree
Rooted in the real Alhambra Decree of 1492. Cádiz, a city of ledgers, gates and whispering neighbors, becomes a character of its own, where paper decides whether a life can continue in the open.
The Healer’s Hands
Taught by a Muslim physician who has worked beside Christians, Jews and Moors alike, Ya’el carries a skill that heals across every border, in a kingdom now sorting its people by creed.
The Crossing
From the docks of Cádiz to the new colony of Hispaniola, and centuries later to the Cuban coast, where a girl finds a forgotten grave and a small star carved where only the patient would look.
“In Cádiz, paper did not merely record a life. It decided whether that life could continue in the open.”
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