num_pages: 384
description: Set in Revolutionary Paris a rich and sweeping novel about courage duty sacrifice and love by the bestselling author of Sisi Allison Pataki and her brother Owen Pataki.From the courtrooms to the battlefields to the alleyways of Paris with cameos from infamous figures in French history the Patakis have crafted an epic action-packed novel of the French Revolution as it has never been seen before. Three years after the storming of the Bastille Paris is enlivened with the ideals of liberty equality and fraternity. The monarchy has been dismantled and a new nation for the people is rising up in its place. Jean-Luc a young optimistic lawyer moves his wife Marie and their son to Paris inspired by a sense of duty to contribute to the new order. Andr the son of a former nobleman flees his privileged past to fight in the unified French Army with his roguish brother. Sophie a beautiful young aristocratic widow and niece of a powerful vindictive uncle embarks on her own fight for independence.Underneath the glimmer of hope and freedom chaos threatens to undo all the progress of the revolution and the lives of these compatriots become inextricably linked. As the demand for justice breeds instability creates enemies out of compatriots and fuels a constant thirst for blood in the streets Jean-Luc Andre and Sophie are forced to question the sacrifices made for the revolution. Liberty proves a fragile fleeting ideal and survival seems less and less likelyboth for these unforgettable individuals and indeed for the new nation itself.
language: English
title: Where the Light Falls
publisher: The Dial Press