John Bradley

John Harris Bradley is an American author of historical fiction residing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his extended family. With travel and residence in Iberia and South America and long-time study of North American heritage, Bradley puts this to use in a two-part series beginning in Belmonte, Portugal in 1565. Here, Destiny weaves tight the fate of three young Portuguese Jews and an older Spanish Gypsy. All must flee the Iberian Inquisition for the New World., but first all must participate in one last act, the rendering of Justice for a murderer. In the sequel to Belmonte, called Joara, the four take part in Spain's first and only attempt to colonize the Mid-Atlantic area of North America. The book, culminates in the destruction of the Spanish Fort of San Juan in the Catawban village of Joara in 1568, and the further adventures of these four survivors in a strange new world.