Mais... mon père? (.....) Son parrain l'Abbé de Talhouët : Ton père? Il est le dernier de cette race effrayante des Tournemine, qui durant les siècles, ont fondu comme des oiseaux de proie sur tout ce qui passait à portée de leurs tours (.....) Il ne lui restait rien de la puissance ni de l'énorme fortune qui faisaient dire, à certaine époque, que les messieurs de La Hunaudaye étaient seulement un peu moins grands seigneurs que le Roi de France. Il s'appellait Pierre ....

Britanny 1779 Gilles Goelo grows up believing he is a bastard - but he has the same proud blood in his veins like the father he had never known Pierre de Tournemine who had been of the noble line of the Gyrfalcons...From France to a dangerous mission on behalf of General Washington to the Indians, Gilles Goelo's life is lived with longing and excitement. Impoverished, restless and haunted by his love for the wild and beautiful Judith de Saint-Mélaine, Gilles vows to regain his fortune and his ancestral home to rescue Judith from the clutches of the monstrous Cagliostro, who holds her prisoner...