What happened to the first Spaniards who set foot in the New World? How was the dream that promised glory lost and ended in tragedy? January 1493. Christopher Columbus returns to Spain to announce his discovery to the Catholic Monarchs. On the island of Hispaniola, he leaves thirty-nine men at Fort Navidad, the first European colony in America. There begins a fascinating and brutal story: that of the pioneers who dreamed of paradise and found hell. The ambition for gold, the struggles for power, disease, and the excessive desire for Taino women ignited an irreconcilable conflict between colonists and indigenous peoples. Amidst this chaos, Marín de Urtubia, a cultured and contradictory man, experiences an impossible love with the young Canayma while witnessing the collapse of Columbus' ideals and the violent birth of a new world. With powerful narrative breath and impeccable historical reconstruction, José Luis Muñoz immerses us in the days that marked the beginning of the conquest, in a novel where adventure, passion, and tragedy merge to show the human side of the epic. Los 39. El Fuerte Navidad is the second part of the trilogy La pérdida del paraíso, soon to be adapted as a television series produced by Secuoya Studios for TVE. The untold story of the beginning of a conquest that changed the world. A tale of blood, desire, and power at the dawn of modern history. Where the myth was born, the fall also began.