Les Pardaillan — Tome 02: L'épopée D'amour

In 1553 France, Jeanne de Piennes and François de Montmorency marry in secret, only to be torn apart by war before their love can truly begin. Seventeen years of betrayal, kidnapping, and lies follow. François's jealous brother Henri orchestrates Jeanne's destruction, forcing her to confess to a crime she never committed, stealing their daughter Loïse, and shattering a family across the halls of the Valois court. Now, in this second volume of Zévaco's sprawling saga, the lovers reunite but nothing is as it was. Jeanne's mind hangs in the balance. The sinister Maréchal de Damville circles. And the old knight Honoré de Pardaillan watches from the shadows, his own role in the family drama far from complete. Zévaco, the anarchist who wrote like Dumas fired through a cannon, weaves historical grandeur with raw emotional stakes. This is Renaissance France at its most treacherous, most passionate, most alive.