Volume Two of The Viviers Chronicles.

Desperate to persuade his lover to stay with him, Louis explains how he came to be accused of three murders. Throwing off his recent traumatic experience, he recalls his childhood years in the village St Martin, buffeted by historical forces beyond his family’s and the village’s control.

This is a love letter where Louis recounts his apprenticeship in St Martin d’Ardeche and Pont St Esprit, triggering a surreal journey into fairy tales, fables and lost perspectives. When the Machiavellian Poldari patronises him, too late he discovers that he is an unwitting pawn in a great Renaissance struggle.