Spawn of the Devil

The first of a trilogy set in 17th-century England and France, during the time of the Thirty Years War and, later, the English Civil War. Returning to his home on Guernseyfrom which he had been sent away as a child after his mother was burned as a witchHelier L'Eree abducts Marguerite, daughter of the man responsible for his mother's death, and flees to France where he enters the service of Cardinal Richelieu.