A spellbinding story of a young orphan, in search of his destiny. Heartrending, full of suspense and yet thoroughly entertaining the reader travels back to the year 1640, when Louis XIII is on the French throne.
For a young adolescent boy, however, the question who's on the throne, is pretty meaningless. After all, as a teenage orphan living in a monastery school in Reims, all he has to worry about is dodging the unpleasant advances of a few unsavoury monks and looking forward to a life of penniless and celibate servitude in a religious order.

After a childhood and adolescence plagued by a constant longing to know who he really is, orphan Pierre has not the slightest idea that his questions are about to be answered. But you know what they say - be careful what you wish for...

Suddenly finding out who you are can bring with it not only happiness and fortune, but danger, friendship and the sort of swift education that the monastery could never have provided! The discovery of who Pierre really is affects not only Pierre and his friends, but has ramifications for the French nobility, the English crown, and most dangerous of all, the machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and his fierce ambition for the Church and for himself.
... This is the first book of a trilogy. The adventure continues in the sequels - The Secrets of Montrésor - and 'Under the Spell of the Serenissima'.

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