Spawn of the Devil

Name: Spawn of the Devil
Rating: 3.8 (53 reviews)

by Christopher Nicole Book 1 in the Helier L’Eree Trilogy series.

First published 1993

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Helier L’Eree is eight years old when his prostitute mother is convicted of being a witch and is burned at the stake. Sent to the other side of his home island of Garnesey to live with the Reverend Grimalle and apprenticed to a grave-digger, Helier begins a new life that seems destined to keep him far from the dark arts his mother was accused of practising. But eventually, feeling lost in his new life, Helier returns to his childhood home and comes across Marguerite le Gron, the very attractive daughter of the man responsible for his mother’s death.

Spurred by the desire to seek revenge as well as his lusty thoughts, he abducts her and flees the Channel Islands. Landing on the French coast without a stitch to call their own, Helier and Marguerite are found by none other than the powerful and secretive Cardinal Richelieu, who takes him back to his home. Helier’s journey from Guernsey to continental battlefields combines the violence of confessional war with accusations of witchcraft and supernatural inheritance, while his mission against Gustavus Adolphus tests whether he can escape Richelieu’s control.