Mistress of My Fate; The Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot
This is 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, Henrietta Lightfoot reminisces about her youth and seeks to set the record straight about the events that shaped her into the woman she became.
In the tradition of novels like Any Human Heart and series’ such as George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman and Patrick O’Brien’s Master and Commander, Mistress of My Fate is a work of ‘faction’ - featuring a fictional heroine’s fast paced gallop through the real historical events.