Messieurs et Mesdames Permit Me the Honor to Introduce Myself

The Old World has invaded the New, but no one in either world could conceive the New World would invade the Old. But in France it has happened with a vengeance: The invader is a debonair, deadly Deity known as Atotarho who owns a most peculiar appetite. Adopting the French aplomb, he confounds the marquee players during their civil war, tossing pubescent King Louis XIV, his cousin la Grande Mademoiselle de Monpansier and Count Frontenac for a loop. Old World drama is on second stage compared to that being played out in the unsettled lands of New France. Iroquois decimate French settlements along the Saint Lawrence River; Algonquin destroy English settlements along the Hudson River. The French wipe out Iroquois villages. Count Frontenac plots to wipe out Atotarho who caused him grief in France. The unpredictable Deity knows time is on his side. In an era when life has little security, the mystery of who will destroy whom is lost in the mystic mist covering New France.