The 1492 Trilogy · Johnny JJ Hernandez
A 1992 expedition into the Sargasso Sea throws NOAA scientist and ex-Navy pilot Dante Vicente Creelson back to 1482. Ten years before Columbus, he meets Keolixani, and together they set out to unite the nations of the Americas into one covenant. Romantic, lush, sci-fi alternative history.
Book One · Out now
The 1492 Trilogy · Book One
In 1992, Dante Vicente Creelson is a NOAA scientist and former Navy pilot charting a strange anomaly in the Sargasso Sea. Then the sea opens, and he wakes in 1482, a decade before three Spanish ships will reach the Caribbean.
He knows what is coming. He cannot stop it alone. Keolixani can see what he can't: the old alliances, the grudges, the ceremonies that bind a promise. What begins as survival becomes a marriage, and the marriage becomes a mission: to bring the nations of the Americas together in a covenant of their own making, before Columbus lands.
A sweeping love story and a bold rewrite of history, where the future is decided by the people who already live here.
Ebook, paperback and Audible audiobook, narrated by Michael Joss.
Book Two · Coming late November 2026
The covenant holds. Now it has to survive the ships. Dante and Keolixani's story continues on Amazon in late November 2026.
Book Three is planned.
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Before 1482, there was the expedition. These are Dante's own notes from the 1992 voyage, written in the days before the sea took him. None of it appears in Book One.
About the author
Johnny JJ Hernandez writes romantic, richly told science fiction about the history that might have been. His debut, 1492: The Relativity of Tomorrow, asks what would happen if the peoples of the Americas had ten years' warning, and a love story at the center of the answer.
He's at work on Book Two, The Gravity of Yesterday, coming late November 2026, with Book Three to follow. He shares the story behind the books on TikTok.
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