Secreto De Estado El Prisionero Enmascarado / Secret of the State the Masked Prisoner

Summary: Wearing a dress that is splattered with blood and clasping a doll to her chest, Sylvie de Valaines, a four-year-old girl, wanders the streets of the small village of Anet. The year is 1626 and her entire family has just been murdered, likely on the orders of Cardinal Richelieu. When a young boy of 10Francois de Borbon-Vendome, the prince of Martiguesfinds her, he brings her to his castle. Sylvie's gratitude to her sa...vior promptly grows into love, a love that will face innumerable obstacles. She will become a lady in waiting to Queen Anna of Austria and a good friend to Madame Hauteford, and in the process will discover, against her wishes, the mortal secret of the birth of the future Louis XIV. [read more]