The Three Mystic Heirs: The Rose Knight's Crucifixion #1

Swashbuckling historical thriller, a parallel novel to Dumas’s The Three Musketeers: In 1619 the esoteric and forbidden magic of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood was compiled into a single volume, The Three Mystic Heirs, a book furiously destroyed by the Inquisition—except for one copy! And Louis d’Astarac thinks he knows how to find it.

Louis is a young French noble, witty, cultured, and trained in all the social graces of a 17th century courtier. But he’s also a hunchback, stunted and deformed....