D.C. Monahan divides time between northern New Hampshire and Curaçao where the discovery of a family link to a centuries-old Jewish heritage led to a flight of the imagination realized in The Navigator's Treasure.

Unattributed 1700s map of “Kurassau”
from the archives of the Library of the S.A.L. (Mongui) Maduro Foundation, Willemstad, Curaçao.  Used with their kind permission.