After her parents are killed by cruel robbers, the heiress of a noble family, a little girl named Adonia, ends up in a monastery orphanage. Years later, the leader of a gang of robbers—Jerome Lupus, hiding behind the guise of a monk—takes her away. He surrounds the girl with warmth and care and teaches her the art of war. Adonia loves and obeys the “kind monk,” not suspecting he is responsible for her parents’ deaths.
Hungry for profit, Jerome Lupus learns that a poor carpenter named Thomas Locke—who had left for the southern seas a couple of years earlier—has returned as a rich man. Jerome Lupus decides to find out where the ordinary carpenter got such an enormous fortune and entrusts the task to his grown-up ward, Adonia.
“Adonia” is the fifth book in the adventure cycle by writer Vladimir Kovalevsky (Tom Sherwood) about the life and extraordinary adventures of Thomas Locke Ley—a carpenter and sailor from Bristol—and his friends.