Manimaa
Before France burned and crowns fell, it once starved to live.
Before he was a king, he was a boy who once feared the silence.
Before she was a revolutionary, she was a girl who once believed in love.
Years before his marriage to Marie Antoinette, before alliances forged him into the King the world will remember, Louis was only a quiet prince who found comfort in the laughter of a printer's daughter from the Third Estate.
Camille was never meant to stand beside a monarch. She never asked to love a prince. She asked for bread. For justice. For a France that did not bleed its poorest dry.
But when a prophecy, whispered in the still halls of Versailles, follows Louis into manhood,
"He will love two women.
One will save his life.
The other will destroy it."
The trouble is, love does not wear a name.
As France trembles beneath famine, debt, and rising fury, the prince becomes king. The king becomes a symbol. And the girl he once loved becomes something far more dangerous than memory.
Revolution has many faces.
Sometimes, it looks like the woman you once promised forever.
Kings have honour.
Soldiers are brave.
Poets have hearts.
And all Camille has left... is rage.
As history sharpens its blade and the guillotine waits for its final applause, Louis must decide which love was his salvation, and which was his ruin.
Because in a country built on hierarchy and hunger, loving the wrong person does not merely break a heart.
It breaks a crown.