Set in Paris in the 1700's, a time and place of great intellectual thrive, religious and political ferment, and the rising of the French revolution! This fictional novel centers on a rising chemist, Antoine Lavoisier, and his travails that will ultimately lead to one of the greatest discoveries known to science rebuking the centuries old theory of phlogiston, of air. But as he goes through his discoveries, how will such findings affect his family, society, and his personal quest for meaning? Based on true events.