Title : The Ball of the Wolves, volume 1 - The Cursed Room - Mireille Calmel - book

Summary :

~Between history and legend, a powerful and captivating novel

December 1500. At the foot of the ramparts of Montguerlhe Castle, under the icy moon, lies a young girl with long, soiled hair. She is bloodied, unconscious. Because she was too beautiful and refused her master, Lord François de Chazeron, he had her husband hanged as they left their wedding, raped her, beat her, and branded her with a hot iron.

But he was wrong to have her thrown to the wolves. For she is not a young girl like the others. The women in his family have strange powers. Some, like Isabeau, speak to wolves. Others, like her sister Albérie, transform on nights of the full moon... And from now on, these two women, as well as little Loraline who will be born from this filthy rape, will live for only one thing: revenge!

A deadly plot is brewing around François de Chazeron. When he is struck down by an unknown illness, his wife doesn't seem very upset... but she is afraid of him and so calls a doctor. He agrees to sit at the sick man's bedside to try to understand. One night, half asleep, he thinks he sees a long silhouette leaning over the bed where the lord is moaning. Can Death have such a pretty face? In any case, the doctor falls in love and will do anything to find this young girl, whether she is real or a ghost.

Isabeau, Albérie, Loraline, these women hardened by trials will be torn between their desire to live life to the fullest and the thirst for revenge that never leaves them. Their destiny takes us from the underground passages of an Auvergne fortress to the ballrooms of the Louvre, from the Cour des Miracles to that of François Ier, from the prophecies of a child who will become Nostradamus to the search for the elixir of life and the philosopher's stone...

Blending alchemy, sensuality, and cruelty, Le Bal des louves sweeps us into a whirlwind of violent feelings and twists and turns. As in Eleanor's Bed, historical elements and forgotten legends have allowed Mireille Calmel to weave the threads of her plot. Under her pen, reality is transformed, and one would swear it was the truth. The supernatural slips into the characters' lives with such spontaneity and obviousness that the reader is captivated. This second novel reaffirms it: this young woman has incredible talent.

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