"Daughters of the New World is a sweeping, emotionally resonant saga that explores love, endurance, and the fraught entanglements of power, race, culture, and family across generations. Set between trade-enamoured Cuba and mercantile Boston, the novel finds its intimate human drama within the brutal machinery of the transatlantic slave economy, illuminating both the moral failures and the rare acts of courage that defined the age.

At its centre stands Maria Luisa, a young woman shaped by abandonment and exploitation. Orphaned and later moved into a brothel, she has learned to regard men as instruments of cruelty, none more so than Rogelio Aran, the brothel's calculating owner. Rogelio is a chillingly rendered antagonist—adept at manipulation, buoyed by wealth, and convinced that people and truth alike can be purchased. When he is outmanoeuvred and loses his claim over Maria Luisa, his wounded pride metastasises into vengeance, setting in motion a chain of events that reverberates far beyond personal grievance.
The narrative gathers force with the arrival of Cuthbert, whose unexpected connection to Maria Luisa begins to close long-broken circles of kinship and betrayal. Through their intertwined fates, the novel deftly examines the corrosive legacy of greed and the redemptive possibility of justice restored.
What distinguishes Daughters of the New World is its confident interweaving of past and present, its unflinching portrayal of racialized violence, and its insistence that love, however improbable, can survive even in the harshest terrain. The result is an epic, fast-paced work that grips from first page to last," The International Review of Books.