A Survivor's Tale (2026)

L'île de la demoiselle

1542. Jacques Cartier embarks on his second voyage to Canada. Aboard his ship, young Marguerite de la Rocque carries a child fathered by another man—not her future husband, the expedition’s commander. As punishment, she is marooned on a remote island off Newfoundland’s coast alongside her rapist and his maid. For two brutal years, she endures starvation, freezing isolation, crushing despair, and creeping madness to survive.