The Holy Land, 1515. A young Sephardic Jew, Yonatan Déulocresca can’t resist the allure of a wager. With few opportunities to advance, it seems the only way to change his fortune as a lowly donkey herder. But his lucrative win ignites the wrath of the vicious crime lord, known as the Hyena, al Dabaa. He abducts Yonatan’s father Joachim, along with a group of European pilgrims they were guiding to sacred sites. Unless Yonatan pays a ransom triple the amount of his winnings, al Dabaa will execute the hostages. In desperation, Yonatan and his brother Aaron embark on a voyage to recover a secret cache of family assets. According to their father’s decades old journal, he hid this trove on an island in the Mediterranean, after his ship went aground. But he could never return for it. A family friend introduces the brothers to Captain Gabriel Coron and his indomitable crew of Sephardic corsairs. With a letter of marque from the Ottoman Sultan, this band of Jewish pirates seeks justice and restitution for the losses suffered at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of all Jews in 1492 by royals Isabel and Ferdinand. Completely inexperienced as sea hands, the two Déulocresca heirs must prove their mettle aboard the corsair vessel, La Represalia. Only if they help seize a Spanish ship and its spoils will these corsairs help them in return. Can they find and reclaim their inheritance to free their father? Or will the pirates, the sea, or the Spanish claim their lives first?