<p>An RSVP to Hernán Cortés is more than a historical novel-it's a journey into the past. The journey of Doña Luisa de Estrada an aristocratic child from Spain taken to the New World at the age of ten provides a lens through which readers can experience the Aztec temples of Tenochtitlán human sacrifice conquistadors and the political intrigue of shifting governorships of New Spain.</p>