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  1. Rec 3

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    Part VII of my "By Arrow and By North" series.
    Nine months after the de Alarcón affair, a letter has gone missing from the Queen's chambers. Claire d'Arville has no choice but to come out of hiding to find it. The Musketeers, it turns out, are hunting the same thing, sent by Richelieu on a search he chose not to explain fully. Working together again feels dangerously easy.
    What troubles Claire most, however, is not the missing letter. It's the fact that Milady de Winter isn't looking for it.

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    21 Jun 2026

  2. Rec 4

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    Part V of my "By Arrow and By North" series.
    The mission is simple: escort a thirteen-year-old Comtesse to the border, and Athos gets his reinstatement back after months of suspension. Four Musketeers, one translator, a pleasant trip through the French countryside. What could go wrong? As it turns out: drugged wine, a kidnapping, and a band of outlaws led by a teenage girl. Claire and Athos have survived worse. Neither of them is thinking about that night by the campfire. Obviously.

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    07 Jun 2026

  3. Rec 4

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    Part VI of my "By Arrow and By North" series.
    A valuable Spanish hostage has vanished from under the Musketeers' noses, and the diplomatic fallout is already underway. Richelieu wants results. Enlisting Claire d'Arville's help is simply the most logical course of action, and if Athos has his own reasons for agreeing, he keeps them to himself.
    The road from Paris to the Norman coast and back again will cost more than any of them anticipated. Some things cannot be buried deep enough.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Part IV of my "By Arrow and By North" series.
    After his latest encounter with Milady, Athos has decided to focus on one thing: drink himself into a stupor. Unfortunately, fate has other plans. A clandestine meeting of Spanish spies, a tavern full of Red Guards, and Claire d’Arville caught in the middle of it all: in the space of a single night, the Musketeers find themselves accused of treason and become fugitives in their own city. All because of the woman Athos is trying very hard to stay away from.

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    17 May 2026

  5. Rec 8

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    It’s 1920, and ex-soldiers Porthos, Athos and Aramis have gone to work as gardeners on the big Cornish estate owned by their old Major-General, Treville.

    In the shadow of WW1 they attempt to turn to the business of growing instead of killing, of nurturing and tending instead of fighting. But their experiences at war and the loss of d’Artagnan is quite literally haunting them, and the past refuses to stay as buried as they would like.

    The third and final in my Musketeers-ex-soldiers-turned-gardeners AU.

    Title from the poem ‘Everyone Sang’, by Siegfried Sassoon (who might just make a cameo in future chapters…)

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    17 May 2026