The Huguenot Connection Trilogy: Merchants of Virtue (The Huguenot Connection Trilogy, #1) (ePub)

France, 1685. Jeanne is the wife of a once-wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV's soldiers will stop at nothing to forcibly convert the country's Huguenots to Catholicism. The men ransack Jeanne's belongings and threaten her children.

"An extremely well-researched book, rich with history and big on heart. The story made me run a gamut of emotions along with the characters..."

One by one, Jeanne watches her Protestant neighbors cave under the constant harassment. She and her husband resolve to keep their faith, but Jeanne wonders if the punishment for their defiance is more than she can bear…

If Jeanne can't find a way to evade the soldiers' clutches, her family will face a fate worse than poverty and imprisonment. They may never see each other again…

Merchants of Virtue is the first book in the Huguenot Connection, a series of historical fiction novels. If you like fast-paced adventure, rich layers of historical detail, and inspirational stories based on true events, then you'll love Paul C.R. Monk's stirring novel.

Buy Merchants of Virtue to immerse yourself in a dangerous world today!

REVIEWS

"You weep for them, get angry over their plight and want to know the rest of their story."

"A well written, highly researched, historical drama."

"It has,everything I like, history, live romance, mystery, tyranny, war and peace."

"Well written with fantastic plot and characters"

"I couldn't put it down..."

"An excellent story well told."

"a magnificent job of marrying historic fact with fiction"

"an extremely well-researched book, rich with history and big on heart"

"draws you into the horrors of the times giving you characters to love and to hate"

"Wonderful historical fiction."

"I didn't want to put it down until the end"

"great storyline and great characters nice twist and great historical fiction"

"I had read a little about this period some years ago, but this provided a new understanding"

"An excellent and skillfully crafted story about the persecution and political upheaval during the reign of King Louis XIV"

"artfully and beautifully portray the choices made in life even today"

"characters are well developed and the history is enlightening"

"I find the storyline of this book to be lingering in my mind..."

"I felt that I knew the characters. I grieved for them, rejoiced with them"