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A sweeping and epic story of adventure and hardship, injustice and triumph, The
Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is the sequel to the No. 1 bestselling The Ghost Ship,
and the fourth — and final — novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles.
Olifantshoek, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows from the south-east, they
say the voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whispering through the deserted
valley. Suzanne Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from war-torn France, is here to walk in
her cousin’s footsteps. Louise Reydon-Joubert, the notorious she-captain and pirate
commander, landed at the Cape of Good Hope more than sixty years ago, then
disappeared from the record as if she had never existed. Suzanne has come to find
her — to lay the stories to rest. But all is not as it seems . . .
Franschhoek, 1862. Nearly one hundred and eighty years after Suzanne’s perilous
journey, another intrepid and courageous woman of the Joubert family — Isabelle
Lepard — has journeyed to the small frontier town once known as Oliftantshoek in
search of her long-lost relations. A journalist and travel writer, intent on putting the
women of her family back into the history books, she quickly discovers that the
tragedies and crimes of the past are far from over. Isabelle faces a race against time
if she is not only going to discover the truth but escape with her life . . .