A royal wedding masks the unfolding of Catherine de Medici s murderous plot against the Huguenots. Will any of the Huguenot princes survive? Life and death rest with two people Rachelle Dushane-Macquinet, couturiere from a celebrated silk-making family, has come back to the Louvre Palais to create the royal wedding gown. Recruited into the evil Queen Mother s ring of women spies, she must use her wits to preserve her honor and the lives of her fellow Huguenots. Marquis Fabien de Vendome has also returned from a buccaneering venture against Spain. The Queen Mother plans to implicate him in an assassination. But Fabien has designs of his own. A man and a woman caught up in history s deadly swirl and love s uncertainties seek to escape the venom of Madame le Serpent. Faith in Christ must uphold them, and all who stand alone, in a city gone diabolically mad."
