Orrain

Bertrand d’Orrain rides home to receive his dying father’s blessing—and finds the castle gates barred. From the battlements, his stepbrother Simon calls down a cruel welcome and points to the tree of justice.

In sixteenth-century France, family rivalries reach from country castles to the dangerous circles of the royal court. Betrayed by Simon and later condemned under the Edict of Fontainebleau, Bertrand loses his lands and flees into exile. Years later, he returns to Paris with little more than a loyal companion and a new profession: fencing-master. His quiet lodging in the Rue des Lavandières brings an unexpected neighbor, Camus, a glove-maker whose learning—and other, hidden business—draw Bertrand into conversation. What is Camus concealing behind his respectable trade?

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