Quentin Durward

“If I thought my very cap knew my secrets,” says Louis XI, “I would throw it into the fire.” In a kingdom of feuding princes and hired swords, even the king trusts no one.

France in 1468 is a land of rival courts, lawless lords and wandering soldiers, where an alliance can be as dangerous as an enemy. Quentin Durward, a young Scottish archer, enters the service of Louis XI—and is soon charged with escorting a Burgundian heiress away from a marriage she does not want. With the crafty king and Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, pulling against each other, Quentin must steer through a maze of shifting loyalties while keeping his charge from becoming a pawn. Can one archer outwit the powers closing in around them?

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