Contributor(s): Author: Jeff Wheeler What if you knew a story that you could tell no one-except one person? The Duke of La Marche is being held prisoner in a tower over a friendship he never tried to hide.
When Ankarette, the queen\'s poisoner, arrives in enemy territory on a quest for the Maid\'s magic sword, little does she realize that she\'s been chosen-or that the duke\'s story will alter the fabric of her mission-and the impending war about to tear two kingdoms apart..
And he will keep his promise-he will reveal to her the Maid\'s mystery so that destiny will be fulfilled.
He knows that one day, when he is old and frail, another girl, a poisoner, will come looking for him.
For the Maid had been but a girl once-a girl with a name and her own astonishing story-as he had been but a boy.
What does matter is a promise he made to a young girl-to the Maid.
But this betrayal no longer matters to the duke.
Instead, he was locked up by his king and called a traitor.
As confidant to the famous Maid of Donremy, the duke should have been a hero.
Contributor(s): Author: Jeff Wheeler What if you knew a story that you could tell no one-except one person? The Duke of La Marche is being held prisoner in a tower over a friendship he never tried to hide
