"When the Musketeers pursue the dangerous Michel Dinicoeur to Spain, they're ambushed at every turn, causing them to suspect that there may be a traitor within their own ranks"-- Provided by publisher.

In seventeenth-century France, Tania de Batz's constant dizziness labels her as weak and an outcast in her town, but she dreams of one day being a great fencer like her father, a former Musketeer. Everything changes when her father is killed, and she is sent to attend the Académie des Mariées in Paris. Like everyone else, Tania believes the academy is a regular finishing school, but she soon discovers it is actually a training ground for elite...

Nicolas de La Reynie, appointed by Louis XIV as the first police chief of Paris, pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of the city, unearths a tightly knit cabal of poisoners, witches, and renegade priests, and discovers that the distance between the quiet backstabbing world of the king's court and the criminal underground is disturbingly short. As he continues his investigations, La Reynie suspects that Louis's mistresses are involved...