In 1812, French artist Théodore Géricault painted The Severed Heads. The pair were unknown, their story unrecorded. But France was in the bloody turmoil of post-revolutionary governance, and someone must have known who they were. A dark historical fiction story set in Nimes, where two lovers tried to survive across political divides that France made fatal.

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