A Marriage Under the Terror

Paris, August 1792. The guillotine casts its shadow over the city, but in the gilded bedchamber of the Marquise de Montargis, the only crisis is cold coffee. Laure has been beautiful for twenty years, and she intends to remain so - even as the Revolution she barely comprehends knocks at her door. When her cousin arrives from the provinces with dangerous ideas and dangerous connections, Laure's carefully constructed world begins to crack. Her marriage to the Vicomte de Sélincourt becomes a desperate gamble in a game where the stakes are not just love, but survival. This is historical fiction at its most evocative: a portrait of a dying world, its aristocrats clinging to ritual and vanity as the scaffold rises in the Place de la Révolution. For readers who crave the lush tragedy of doomed privilege, the claustrophobic intimacy of revolutionary terror, and the small human dramas that unfold when empires crumble.