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the same goes for the second Novel:
The Devil's Diamonds :
this is the link:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
and the correct text is:
Gilles Goëlo now Chevalier de Tournemine, nicknamed the Gyrfalcon, hero of the Revolutionary War in America is finally ready for marriage he promised to Judith Saint-Mélaine. Glory smiles at him, his reputation for bravery followed him back to Versailles.
In France, he goes in search of his missing fiancée, who has been the victim of an assassination attempt. He vows to find her and to raise money to buy his family domain. So Gilles leaves for Spain where he meets the Duchess of Alba and falls into the trap of love. She asks him to buy for her the famous necklace of Queen Marie-Antoinette.
there are three entries for 'the Lure of the Falcon' by Juliette Benzoni. For all books there is the French Summary instead the English.
I have copied it for whoever will correct this mistake ;-)
The Lure of the Falcon marks Gilles Goëlo's debut as Juliette Benzoni's first male hero in this new historical adventure. The novel opens in 1779 with young Gilles being primed for the priesthood at his mother's insistence. She believes her son's ordination will atone for an affair that left her with a bastard son and deprived her of a religious vocation.
But Gilles' heart rebels and he secretly wishes to go to America with Lafayette to join the fight against the British Imperialists. He also yearns to track down the identity of the father he has never known and whose name his mother refuses to disclose to him.
Gilles' frustrated love for Judith de Saint-Mélaine, the daughter of an impoverished aristocrat, finally impels him to leave for the New World. In America, Gilles shows his true colours, both as a dauntless soldier and a formidable ladies' man. The renaissance man par excellence, he swims, fences, rides and makes love all with a nonpareil finesse.
General Washington sends him on an Indian mission where he again demonstrates his capacity for heroism and passion. Through a series of bizarre adventures, Gilles comes to terms with his own identity, which is revealed to him by the « Lure of the Falcon »