THE LEGIONNAIRE Before he was a soldier, he was a ghost.
In the scorched ruins of Camerone, one man walked away wounded and haunted.
Adhemar Lacroix vanished into the badlands with a rifle in one hand and the memory of a Queen who once loved him.
What followed wasn’t survival.
It was exile—and the long road to redemption.
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The Bridge Between Two Wars. And Two Men.
Before Franco, there was Adhemar—a soldier, a ghost, and a man clawing his way toward redemption.
Adhemar Lacroix once moved in the shadows of power. Trained in diplomacy, espionage, and old-world charm, he became the secret lover of Queen Isabella II of Spain—and father to a child born in silence.
For that love, he was vanished.
Imprisoned beneath the palace by order of Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz, Adhemar became a weapon in waiting—a ghost kept close, silenced by chains and the threat of scandal.
The child—erased. His name, forgotten.
Released by the Duke, Adhemar is blackmailed into silence and servitude.
He does what he must—and never stops searching for his stolen son, Francois. But the trail runs cold. Buried by his half-brother, Murin—the true architect of betrayal. So Adhemar vanishes again—into the French Foreign Legion. At Camerone, he is the last man standing. Bloodied. Changed.
He fights his way north through fire and ruin, crosses into Texas, and builds a life in Oklahoma. Peace, at last.
Until Quantrill’s bushwhackers burn it all down. They think he’s just an old soldier. They don’t know the name Lacroix.
The Legionnaire bridges The Last Cavalier and The Ballad of Franco Loco, charting a legacy born of love, erased by power, and reignited in vengeance. This isn’t the story of a war hero.
It’s the story of a father who refused to stay dead.
Some ghosts haunt the past.
Others burn it down on their way home.
THE LEGIONNAIRE
Character Dossier
- Adhemar Lacroix – The original ghost in the Lacroix bloodline. A rogue of the old world, forged in espionage and bound by blood.
- Queen Isabella II – Spain’s scandal-veiled monarch. The woman who loved him—and lost him.
- The Duke of Cádiz – Cunning. Vengeful. A royal puppeteer who turned Adhemar into his blade.
- Murin Lacroix – The architect of shadows. Adhemar’s half-brother. His rival.
- Captain Jean Danjou – Hero of Camerone. Adhemar’s commanding officer and symbol of Legionnaire myth.
- Colonel Francisco de Paula Milán – Mexican commander at Camerone. A patriot on the other side of fate.
Inspired by True History
- The Battle of Camerone and the enduring legend of the French Foreign Legion
- Spanish court politics and royal scandal
- Mexican resistance during the French intervention of the 1860s
- The shadow campaigns of the Second French Empire
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He wanted peace. They gave him war. Now he walks the knife's edge between past and penance.
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