Papillon Rising

By: Charlotte C. DuPont

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In a city hungry for justice, a baker’s daughter must decide which truth is worth burning for.

Paris, 1789. The ovens still warm each morning, but the bread is running out—and so is the silence. Emmanuelle Papillon knows her place: scale the flour, knead the dough, keep her head down. But as revolution simmers in the streets and whispers fill the marketplace, she begins to question what she’s truly feeding: bodies or systems?

When a chance encounter entangles her with a soldier from the other side of the barricades, Emmanuelle is drawn into a world where loyalty is lethal and desire is a dangerous kind of hunger. As her family fractures and her city begins to burn, she must choose between the safety of the life she’s always known and the truth rising like smoke in her chest.

Lush, poetic, and devastatingly human, Papillon Rising is a story of survival, slow-burning love, and one woman’s quiet defiance in the face of history’s most brutal storm.

Perfect for readers who crave lyrical storytelling rooted in myth and memory, who are drawn to fierce, complex women navigating war-torn worlds, and who believe that love—quiet, slow, and dangerous—can be just as revolutionary as fire, this debut blends the intimacy of literary historical fiction with the intensity of romantasy revolution, asking:

What will you risk when love defies the flags we’re told to follow?