Whiskey with a Pearl Earring

In 1654 Delft, life appears orderly only on the surface.

Beneath the calm façade of a prosperous city move illicit trades, religious ambitions, and fragile powers ready to collapse at the first impact. Within this precise and real historical setting, a young girl named Anna finds herself in possession of two pearl earrings too precious to be simple ornaments and too dangerous to ignore.

Something inside her has changed.
Whiskey has manifested.

Whiskey and the Pearl Earring is an adventurous and ironic historical novel set in the Wisiverse, an original narrative universe where History is not rewritten but slightly tilted. Whiskey is neither a traditional hero nor a divine voice. He is a presence that acts from within, bringing clarity, distance, and above all courage. The kind needed to remain standing when the world decides to fall.

Among chases through the streets of Delft, mercantile intrigues, religious fanaticism, and a real event destined to mark collective memory, the Delft gunpowder explosion of 1654, Anna risks her life more than once and makes choices no one expects from a girl with neither power nor protection. In the chaos, almost unintentionally, an image is born that will survive the centuries, not as the center of the story but as the silent trace of something larger.

This is not the novel of a painting, but the story of what happens while a painting takes shape. It is a historical and unexpected narrative that blends adventure with literary storytelling, where small gestures shift real balances and a millimeter of inner freedom can make all the difference.

Written in an intelligent, light style inspired by Douglas Adams, Whiskey and the Pearl Earring is a story set in the past yet belonging to an invented narrative universe, where human consciousness moves forward only a little, but moves forward nonetheless.

A story from the Wisiverse.