The Conquest
HarperCollins, 2002, 24.95, 288 pp.
ISBN: 0060093595
Sara Rosario Gonzales works as a rare-book restorer at Los Angeles' Getty Museum. Her current assignment is to mend a sixteenth century manuscript, the story of “Helen” an Aztec woman Cortez sent as a present to the Pope.
Upset in her personal life as her marine boyfriend is going to marry someone else because she failed to commit, Sara buries her unhappiness inside the restoration project....