VICOMTE

<p>1796. In the wake of France's Reign of Terror Guillaume Delane the Vicomte Desartes crosses the sea to Ireland with one purpose: to learn his kidnapped brother's fate and bring his captor the Jacobin zealot Leclaire to justice. </p><p></p><p>From the stony shores of Galway the humble halls of a Catholic orphanage to the alleys of Dublin Guillaume traverses a country simmering with superstition grievance and hardship. Where a blackthorn shillelagh can settle accounts faster than any jury. An orphan house with masked complications a donation that appears the morning after his purse is cut a whaling ship slipping out to sea and confrontations with an Irish faction fighter draw him into a knot of deception he must sever before it tightens - all the while dealing with conflicting emotions for a young Catholic novice. </p><p></p><p>Pursuit becomes a trial: between vengeance and mercy law and survival faith and instinct budding affection and the dark satisfaction of the blow well struck. </p><p></p><p>Vicomte: The Shillelagh carries on the intrigue of the League of the Quadrumvirate a saga of friendship loyalty hard justice and the cost of keeping one's honor in a world that has little</p>