When floodwaters erase a coastal town and faith begins to erode, one family’s choices ripple across oceans and generations. From the ports of fifteenth-century Lisbon to the highlands beyond Aden, Captain Dario Fernandes and his son Mateo chase a dream older than empire—a route eastward that might heal what grief has broken. But the sea keeps its own ledgers. As kingdoms rise and trade becomes conquest, the Fernandes name drifts through time: a father who leaves to protect what he loves, a son who writes across water, and a grandson who inherits both their courage and their mistakes. The story spans two continents and nearly two centuries. Across red-hilled coasts, burning harbors, and quiet rooms where women wait for news that never arrives, the novel explores how discovery and loss often share the same wind. Letters, memory, and rumor entwine until history itself begins to echo. Lyrical yet grounded in historical detail, A Forgotten Voyage examines the thin seam between faith and ambition—how the desire to find new worlds can cost us the ones we already have. It is a meditation on legacy, silence, and the stories that survive their tellers. For readers who loved the emotional depth of All the Light We Cannot See, the maritime intimacy of The Old Man and the Sea, and the generational resonance of The Prophet, this novel offers both the sweep of epic exploration and the intimacy of a family’s unfinished prayer. At once a voyage, an elegy, and a rediscovery, A Forgotten Voyage asks: When the maps fade and the seas change their names, what remains of the people who dared to draw them?
