The Lone Musketeer: Before They Were Three

By Artie Page

All for one. One for all. But first - they had to find each other.
The Lone Musketeer is the untold origin of three of literature's greatest heroes, told in the months before d'Artagnan arrived to complete them. Three braided stories, three roads through Paris, three men who were each extraordinary alone and would become something else entirely together.
Athos: the Comte de la F re who has destroyed his own title, his estate, and his name - carrying the specific ruin of having loved someone completely and having been completely deceived. Walking north toward a new name and no past.
Porthos: the merchant's son of no title but extraordinary gifts, who has spent thirty years performing himself into rooms that won't quite accept him - until the widow Coquenard sees through the performance and a fight in a tavern provides a different path.
Aramis: three months from ordination, holding a misfiled document that could expose the Cardinal's intelligence network - and making the decision that no seminary room can contain what he actually is.
The night a tavern fight became a street fight and three strangers became something with a name.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9L5G1Q8
• ISBN13: 9798187322640
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"