Mistress of My Fate

"As I came round the final bend in the road, the buck on the inn's signboard roused my tears. My mind swirled with memories and confusion. I wept for myself, for the innocent girl whom I would never see again . . . "

As the ignored adopted niece of the Earl and Countess of Stavourley, Henrietta Lightfoot believed that she was destined to lead a quiet life as a lady's companion to her spoiled cousin, Lady Catherine. However, fate had something else in mind. As passionate love and a suspicious death conspire to tear her from everything she knows, the innocent seventeen-year-old Henrietta is thrown headlong into the decadence and debauchery of eighteenth-century London, where she is forced to fend for herself as a courtesan, a gambler, and a spirited intellect of the city.