He was hired to repel a fearsome enemy.
Vandera.
Outgunned and outmanned, he hires Joaquim Vanderas, a cruel and degenerate drunkard who is also a professional killer of the highest order.
But the fighting rages on, and Lemuel Vachon, retainer of the ducal house, will do anything to help his lady, Christine de Guise, escape her fate.
The Thirty Years\' War, 1643--the French have taken the Duchy of Lorraine, and the Saint-Empire of the Austrian Habsburgs is in ruins.
He was worse.
He was hired to repel a fearsome enemy