The Rose and the Blade

di Amodio Tortora (Autore)

Self-Publishing, 2026

Paris. During a procession, a shot intended for Cardinal Richelieu kills a captain of the guards; the assassin poisons himself before he can speak. Sewn into his doublet, a fragment of a map bears a single name: Saint-Lucien, a Breton fortress erased from every record, which houses the Archive of the Living Dead—that is, names erased, hidden heirs, secret marriages. Summoned to a private chamber, the four Musketeers learn that their old adversary, the lady of the white rose, is racing toward that place at the head of a network of grateful debtors. The road west becomes enemy territory, and a fire in Pen-Lann separates the four friends onto four different paths. D'Artagnan joins forces with the smuggler Marianne Kervadec and discovers how the fortress is supplied by sea. Porthos, captured, storms a tower from within and frees an old engineer who knows the secret passage. Aramis, in a forgotten convent, discovers the most terrible truth: the rose is not Milady's banner, but the mark branded upon her at birth. Athos, lured to a ruined villa, hears from her own lips the story of the creature sold and branded by her own father. At last they converge upon Saint-Lucien, a fortress commanded by no one, where fire and high tide turn the confrontation into an inner siege. Athos understands that Milady does not wish to destroy evil, but to preserve the names for revenge, and at the decisive moment he chooses not to betray her. At the edge of the cliff, she releases the only page she had been seeking into the wind and throws herself into the sea, which returns no body.

• Autore: Amodio Tortora
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Self-Publishing
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237953480