A powerful story of revolution, love & intense rivalry set in 1870 during the four-month siege of Paris. 1870. All over Paris the lights are going out. The Prussians are encircling the city & Europe's capital of decadent pleasure & luxury is becoming a prison, its citizens caught between defiance & despair. Desperate times lie ahead as the worst winter for decades sets in & starvation looms. One man seems to shine like a beacon in the shadows. Jean-Jacques Allix promises to be the leader the people need, to save the city itself. Painter Hannah Pardy, his young English lover, believes in him utterly; taking up arms for his cause, she is drawn into the heart of the battle for Paris. But as the darkness & panic spreads it is harder & harder to see things as they really are, & Hannah struggles to separate love from self-interest & revolutionaries from traitors. Faced with impossible decisions, Hannah must confront the devastating reality of her beloved Paris to establish what truly matters to her
- & what she will do to protect it.