About the book: 2010 / After the death of her parents at the hands of cruel robbers, the heiress of a noble family, a little girl named Adonia, ends up in a monastery orphanage, from where the leader takes her a few years later bandit Hieronymus Lupus, hiding under the guise of a monk. Having surrounded the girl with warmth and care, he teaches her the art of war. Adonia treats the “good monk” with love and obedience, not suspecting that he is guilty of the death of her parents. Greedy for profit, Hieronymus Lupus learns that the poor carpenter Thomas Locke, who went to the southern seas a couple of years ago, has returned rich. Hieronymus Lupus decides to find out where a simple carpenter got such incredible wealth, and entrusts this to his grown-up pupil, Adonia. “Adonia” is the fifth book in the series of novels by the popular writer Vladimir Kovalevsky (Tom Sherwood) about the life and extraordinary adventures of master Thomas Locke Ley, a carpenter and the sailor from Bristol and his friends.