The Map of Bones

Nearly 200 years separate the two women in the final volume of Mosse’s Huguenot family saga (after The Ghost Ship). Suzanne Joubert travels to South Africa in 1688, escaping the religious violence back in her native France and hoping to unravel the mystery of what happened to her cousin, the pirate and ship captain Louise Reydon-Joubert. Suzanne’s travels to the interior and back reveal a dramatic family secret that will later spur one of her descendants to also travel abroad for answers, two centuries later. In 1862 England, Isabelle Lepard, also a member of the Joubert family, is building a family archive. However, she is missing the story of Louise and insists on traveling to South Africa to discover her fate and fill in this last bit of her family’s history. But Isabelle’s voyage comes with a hidden danger that still lurks around the Jouberts, and it may cost her her life.