New York: Harper Collins, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel based on the life of conquistadora Ines Suarez, who together with Pedro de Valdivia, struggled to build the city of Santiago. "Born into a poor family in Spain, Ines, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World, Ines uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure." Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Bibliographical note. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-061161535.