Echoes of Guillotine
As the shadow of the guillotine falls over a France consumed by revolution, the lives of five Parisians from starkly different worlds are about to collide in a decade-long struggle for survival, justice, and the very soul of the nation.
Adèle de Valois, a noblewoman trapped in a gilded cage of privilege, finds her world shattered by the forbidden philosophies she secretly devours. The cries for liberty from the streets below are an intellectual thrill—until she witnesses the raw, desperate face of hunger and realizes the ideas in her books are being written in blood.
Jean-Luc Moreau, a hardworking locksmith from the city's poorest district, dreams not of rebellion, but of justice and affordable bread for his family. Swept into the heart of the uprising, from the storming of the Bastille to the rise of the Terror, his initial hope for the Republic curdles into horror as he watches his neighbors become monsters and the revolution begins to devour its own.
Seraphine Dubois, a fiercely protective market woman, becomes the embodiment of the popular fury that will shake the throne itself. For her, the revolution is not about abstract rights but the primal, daily battle for her children's survival, a fight that will lead her to the very gates of Versailles.
And amidst the chaos, the ambitious Citoyen Dubois sees not a crisis, but a ladder. A master of manipulation, he skillfully navigates the tides of blood—from the Jacobin clubs to the corridors of the Terror—to ascend to power, embodying the revolution's darkest, most cynical impulses.
From the opulent salons of the Ancien Régime to the blood-soaked stones of the Place de la Révolution, Echoes of Guillotine is a sprawling, immersive epic that charts the full, terrifying course of one of history's most pivotal events. Through the intertwined fates of its characters—their paths crossing in fleeting, charged moments that forge an unlikely and dangerous connection—this novel explores the human cost of idealism, the brutal reality of class warfare, and the agonizing choices made when survival is all that's left.
