Requiem For Paris: The Bells of Hunger

By Philip James

Paris, 1800. In the aftermath of revolution, bells toll across a city haunted by hunger, memory, and what refuses to be forgotten.In the shadow of Notre-Dame, where ancient stones hold secrets of their own, Mathis Charbonneau works in the kitchens of the Tuileries Palace while his twin brother, Bastien, struggles to keep their starving family alive. Bread is scarce, desperation is everywhere, and beneath the grandeur of Napoleon's rising Paris, the forgotten are beginning to disappear.When hunger drives Bastien into an act of desperation, the brothers find themselves caught in a darkness far greater than poverty. In the streets and catacombs beneath the city, a band of orphaned children known as the Cathedral Rats survives among the ruins, guarding secrets that powerful men would rather remain buried.As bells echo through Paris, Mathis begins to sense that something ancient is stirring beneath the city-something connected to the cathedral, the dead, and the strange forces moving through the shadows.The Bells of Hunger is a richly atmospheric historical gothic novel of family, faith, survival, and forbidden secrets, set against the turbulent Paris of 1800. Where hunger drives the living into darkness, the bells may be warning of something even worse.The first chime has been struck.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HM5JQ6NL
• ISBN13: 9798997969028
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Faded Ink and Ash
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"