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Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more…

The first novel in a thrilling new historical series, featuring the adventures of Henrietta Lightfoot, courtesan, spy, actress, artist, forger, card sharp and suspected murderess on her journey through a Europe torn by revolution and war. Mistress of My Fate begins in England in 1789, where the sheltered seventeen year old, Henrietta Ingerton escapes from the country estate on which she was raised only to find herself plunged into a world for which she is wholly unprepared. Told in her own words, Mrs Lightfoot reminisces about her youth and seeks to set the record straight about the events that shaped her into the woman she became.

Henrietta goes to Paris to once again find her beloved Allenham, but she is drawn in by a Scottish courtesan who is the former mistress of the most powerful man in Paris. Soon Henrietta finds herself in a world of spies who bring deception, psychological terror, and a shocking double cross in this dark follow-up to Mistress of My Fate.

Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most salacious and highly publicized divorces in history. In February 1782, England opened its newspapers to read the details of Sir Richard Worsley vs. George Maurice Bisset, a Criminal Conversation trial in which the aggrieved Sir Richard attempted to sue his wife’s lover for an astronomical £20,000 in damages. In the course of the proceedings, the Worsley’s scandalous sexual arrangements, voyeuristic tendencies and bed-hopping antics were laid bare. Lady Worsley’s Whim is the story of a marriage between two opposing personalities; a stoic, art-collecting…