Tenderness

Tenderness tells the story of a magic queen and her two princesses, who travel in the Invincible Armada, forced by Philip II into marriages of convenience to noble Englishmen on the successful invasion of England. Queen Esmeralda hates men because they have always conditioned her life and taken away her freedom, so she is not willing to let her daughters have her same fate. When the Armada passes an island that the Queen considers deserted, she creates a storm that sinks their ship. Her plan is to stay on that island with her daughters, so they never see a man again in their lives. The problem is that they choose an island where a lumberjack has lived, for twenty years, with his two children who fled there so he and his sons never had to see a woman again in their life…

Followed by Q & A with the author.