Paris, 1800. The bells are silent.
The Terror is over.
But the dying has just begun.
In the shadow of Napoleon’s rising empire, the Charbonneau family clings to survival in the starving streets of Les Halles. When illness threatens to claim his mother and sister, Bastien makes a choice that will damn him—crossing into the criminal underworld to keep them alive.
Three debts.
Three descents into darkness.
Until the night the Commission raids the docks…
and something far older than the Empire begins to stir.
Across the river, in the gilded halls of the Tuileries Palace, Bastien’s twin brother Mathis serves princes and spies, bound by duty to a world that cannot see him. But when their paths begin to converge, what waits beneath the city rises with them.
In a world where princes are bound by duty
and servants are meant to be invisible…
desire becomes a rebellion.
As the Commission tightens its grip and forbidden forces awaken beneath Paris, both brothers are drawn toward impossible choices—
—and a silence that is anything but empty.
The silence has a source.
