She’s soon thrilled to discover that what appears to be a finishing school on the surface is actually a training ground for a new type of Musketeer. After her father is brutally murdered, it seems as if his final wish parallels her mother’s when Tania is sent to a finishing school. She dreams of being a Musketeer, while her mother is more concerned about marrying her off to someone who can care for Tania once her parents are gone. He also teaches her fencing and techniques to accommodate for her undiagnosed bouts of dizziness. Tania is raised hearing her father tell adventurous stories about his time as a Musketeer. This debut novel is a fierce, whirlwind adventure about the depth of found family, the strength that goes beyond the body, and the determination it takes to fight for what you love.Ī gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers? Besides loving this idea, I’ve always enjoyed novels set during this time period. Torn between duty and dizzying emotion, Tania will have to lean on her friends, listen to her own body, and decide where her loyalties lie…or risk losing everything she’s ever wanted. He’s kind, charming, and breathlessly attractive-and he might have information about what really happened to her father. But then she meets Étienne, her first target in uncovering a potential assassination plot. With her newfound sisters at her side, Tania feels for the first time like she has a purpose, like she belongs. And they don’t shy away from a swordfight. It’s a secret training ground for a new kind of Musketeer: women who are socialites on the surface, but strap daggers under their skirts, seduce men into giving up dangerous secrets, and protect France from downfall. But L’Académie des Mariées, Tania realizes, is no finishing school. His dying wish? For Tania to attend finishing school.

Then Papa is brutally, mysteriously murdered. But Tania wants to be strong, independent, a fencer like her father-a former Musketeer and her greatest champion. Everyone in town thinks her near-constant dizziness makes her weak, nothing but “a sick girl” even her mother is desperate to marry her off for security. Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. An OwnVoices, gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness trains as a Musketeer and uncovers secrets, sisterhood, and self-love.

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