The Mage Queen: Her Majesty's Musketeers Book 1

He should be dead a dozen times over.Evidently fate has other plans.The year is 1631 and France lies in ruins after five long years under a devastating Curse. Its only hope-the magical bloodlines of a deposed queen in hiding hunted by her enemies.Fleeing the carnage in Gascony Charles dArtagnan abandons the ashes of his former life to seek better opportunities in Paris. With his land gone and his family among the countless dead he has nothing left to lose and little to gain beyond mere survival.Magic-once a useful tool for those rare individuals who still possess it-has become a weapon of incomparable power and destructiveness employed by Frances bitter rival Spain. With Louis XIII dead and a Spanish pretender seated on the throne the countrys future appears bleak.As one faceless refugee among many dArtagnan never expected to hold Europes destiny balanced in his hands. He certainly never expected to be welcomed into an elite guard protecting Frances one and only hope-a widowed queen wielding the same power as her enemies.But Anne of Austrias magic will be wasted unless dArtagnan can help her stay one step ahead of the assassins nipping at her heels. Ultimately he and his comrades must return her to the belly of the beast itself confronting the very forces that have pushed France to the brink of destruction.The Mage Queen cant do it alone. But with the help of dArtagnan and her loyal musketeers France may still have a fighting chance.