Mistress of My Fate : The Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot

July 2011 Debut of the Month.

Set during a period of revolution and turmoil, Mistress of My Fate is the first book in a series called The Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot. Her candid and eye-brow raising memoirs are filled with real and invented history topped with some extravagent period detail as she seeks to set the record straight about the events that shaped her into the woman she became.

And a message to readers from Henrietta Lightfoot:

October 1789: I shall never forget that day. I shall never forget the decision I made. I was seventeen and so ill prepared for life that I hardly knew how to dress myself, let alone how to board a mail coach or even how to purchase a loaf of bread. When I fled my home at Melmouth Park, I left those who both loved and hated me behind. I threw myself upon the world, dear reader - and see what trouble has come of that. Do read my tale closely, for the warnings of your mamma and your governess were correct; there is much to be learned from a woman of my sort. I fell for every snare and trick of fate, so that you might not. My tale is not for the faint of heart - the prude, the high-minded and moral are likely to take offence. You have heard the lies and slander from others. Prepare now to hear the truth.