PRISMES DE TOPAZE

About

In the glittering shadows of 1880s Paris, beauty hides dangerous secrets.

Vivienne Laurent grows up surrounded by chandeliers, silk salons, music, and aristocratic elegance inside her family’s fading apartment on Rue de Varenne. Trained to become the perfect Parisian lady, she secretly longs for something more meaningful than society’s expectations.

When financial ruin destroys her privileged world, Vivienne is forced into an entirely different life—one shaped not by luxury, but by craftsmanship, grief, and survival.

As she rises from fallen aristocrat to gifted jewelry restorer, she discovers that broken things can still hold extraordinary beauty.

But after the sudden death of the man she loves, Vivienne’s fragile new life changes forever when a mysterious fractured topaz prism arrives at her atelier. And the prism remembers.

Drawn into hidden societies, forgotten laboratories, candlelit archives, and the dangerous intellectual underworld beneath Paris, Vivienne uncovers a terrifying secret:
Certain objects can preserve emotional consciousness through light itself.
Guided by the enigmatic and deeply haunted Soren Vale, Vivienne enters a world of:

secret optical experiments,
preserved memories,
lost love,
hidden Parisian societies,
and dangerous obsessions with immortality.

But the more the prism reveals, the more it seduces her with impossible visions of the past—including moments with her lost fiancé, Rémy Valois.

As memory begins replacing reality, Vivienne must decide:
Is love meant to preserve the dead forever…
or teach the living how to let go?

Perfect for readers who love:

atmospheric historical fiction,
gothic romance,
dark academia,
emotionally rich literary fantasy,
Parisian settings,
hidden societies,
slow-burn romance,
and beautifully written stories about grief, memory, and restoration.

Prismes de Topaze blends the emotional depth of literary romance with the haunting mystery of speculative historical fiction.
Filled with:

gaslit Paris streets,
candlelit salons,
antique jewels,
velvet-draped archives,
forgotten mirrors,
fractured gemstones,
and emotionally unforgettable characters—

this is a novel about the dangerous beauty of memory and the courage required to move forward after loss.

Enter the hidden world beneath Paris where memory survives in light, love refuses to disappear, and every fractured prism carries a story waiting to awaken.

Discover Prismes de Topaze today.