Les Pardaillan — Tome 05: Pardaillan Et Fausta

Fausta waits in the dungeons of Castel Sant'Angelo, condemned to die. The death bells toll through Rome as two powerful men, Cardinal Montalte and Hercule Sfondrato, battle to save her - both consumed by a desperate love for the same woman. In a stunning act of defiance, Fausta chooses her own death, poisoning herself rather than submit to the executioner's blade. Yet this is not an ending. She rises from the dead, eluding her captors, and vanishes into the night carrying secrets that could alter the fate of France. Pursued by enemies and driven by a love she has never confessed to the knight Pardaillan, she embarks on a perilous journey toward Madrid, where her actions could spark war or forge peace. Zévaco, the anarchist writer who wielded historical fiction like a blade, delivers Renaissance Rome in all its murderous glory: poison, political intrigue, sword fights in moonlit courtyards, and a woman who refuses to be a pawn in men's games of power. This is swashbuckling adventure at its finest, where love and survival demand equal parts cunning and courage.