The Muse of Freedom by Jules Larimore

Larimore leads us to clandestine religious gatherings in the remote Cevennes hills of the south of France at the tail end of the seventeenth century. Jean BonDurant, a rich aristocrat who is training as an apothecary, joins open-spirited Amelia and her wolf-dog Romulus in ministering to the medical needs of the impoverished victims of persecution.
But other things are happening in secret in these Cevennes hills, revealed as Jean travels between his townhouse in Genoüillac, the family Château de Cougoussac, to the towns and villages of the region, and through bleak and dangerous mountains.
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