KINGDOMS OF DESIRE

When Gysbert van Laan was five, he lost her mother in a mysterious way, and when he was seven, his only custodian, Laura Charlesbourg, a landowner and with the promises to see him again, left to England as an unwanted married woman, and when he was eight, he was sold him as a slave. Five months after the sale, with the help of a Dutch African father, an elite set out to rescue him from a brutal Virginian plantation owner, and the African land made him home in time to understand who he is and a history of exploration and self-esteem has begun.

It's the year 1806, van Laan’s father is among the wealthy elite who can afford to give to his only biological son a sort of paramount superiority to meet in person George III, the King of Great Britain and Ireland, a paralleled audience —by confirming himself as equal at birth. So, this new Gysbert van Laan has the same power as equal to the title of Magnus Dux. The same privilege to ride side by side with Napoleon Bonaparte of France and to sit at the table of alliances. That same perfect stage makes him as charm as devious to find who had plotted the death of his mother, the power-hungry and pain behind Laura’s destiny and what happens really to the land of Charlesbourg before and after her marriage with ambitious British born Martin Longfellow, and most importantly, the fraudulent manipulation of his father. Leading a selective group around the world, who will die for him and who will do everything he asks them to do, Magnus Dux de Laan, in mind-uploading plans and punishes, even has all the same memories as a military soldier like his grandfather, has no mercy as when it comes to justice.

He also might have brought down his father’s brother the most hater in the list.

Or at least, that’s what the gold-digging controller and the artful protestors want everyone to think: that a young man like van Laan is an unprepared, unpredictable radical who won't be capable of discovering the truth. Gysbert van Laan is used to hearing all that, though. He’s used to standing up for his mind too, and he’s determined to do it now—even if proving Laura’s innocence means taking on those protestors and anyone else who has attacked his family. But when his own life is threatened—not by protestors, but by the very Mother’s shadow who created his psychotic way of quest —Gysbert van Laan starts questioning everything he thought he knew about the true nature of his existence. About himself. About his father.



And the answers he finds reveal a more sinister purpose for his mother’s and father’s death—and her own destiny—than he ever could have imagined.