Overview

The Crimson Heirlooms. One tangible - a priceless necklace called the Cross of Nantes. The other ephemeral - a secret hidden within the lyrics of a song. Each holds the power to change the course of history. But together, the price of ownership is death or salvation. 1832, Paris. Jake Loring is an American student living in the city during the turbulent march to revolution. Torn between the safety of going home to America and the passionate adventure of joining the Resistance, Jake foolhardily follows Paris into violent madness and soon finds himself being blackmailed by the Sphinx-like Monsieur Tyran to search for the Crimson Heirlooms... or die trying. 1776, France. The Heirlooms are born out of the drama unfolding in and around the dying manor of the Traversier Family and the Guerriers of Saint-Domingue. Furious betrayal, religious passion, illicit love and faltering honor between the men and women of both clans forge the Heirlooms and determine the fate of each family. Past and present intersect as Jake outruns the dangerous forces trying to stop him while sifting through the rubble of this half-century-old drama in order to find the clues that will lead him to the current location of the Heirlooms and to freedom. But at what cost to France? And his soul?

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Dennis's debut is an ambitious, sweeping epic... Meticulous research, sharp historical detail, and a deepening mystery results in an exciting story. -- Publisher's Weekly A formidable, ambitious debut novel with the tantalizing promise of a follow-up. -- Kirkus Reviews (Recommended Review) It could easily become one of my favorite historical series... an intelligent and complicated but satisfying story. -- Online Book Club 4/4 Stars The reader is transported into a world where history comes alive.... (Dennis's) exotic range of characters is so well developed that it's hard not to know them, to identify with them and fall into their stories wholeheartedly. -- Readers' Favorite 5/5 Stars .. .a secret tour of late 18th and early 19th century France... And like a great movie, many of the story's scenes and images linger in the mind's eye. -- Cary Solomon & Chuck Konzelman, writers of Point Blank and God's Not Dead.

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Hunter Dennis was a scriptwriter in Hollywood starting with his first sale to the studios in 1998. He has been credited on several films, one of which was distributed internationally and made over 160 million dollars. Since the completion of his first novel, The Crimson Heirlooms, he has wholly converted to writing prose. Hunter comes from a distinguished military family, has lived in three countries and across America. He was accepted into the University of Southern California Film School in the Production major as an undergraduate. Before optioning his first screenplay, he worked on a road slurry crew, cleaned a restaurant, and learned how to box. ​He currently lives in Thousand Oaks, California, and looks forward to starting a family somewhere far more green, wet and cold.

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