Book description
>One freezing May morning, two veiled women step off the boat from
Holland. A French lady, calling her Mrs Fox, and her maid: they are on
the run. Fearing for her life, Mrs Fox must make her way in a strange
new city . . . but both her past and present crackle with danger.
Immoral and beautiful, Mrs Fox has always used men to support and amuse
her. Trusting on her wits to keep ahead of the hangman, she manipulates
others to survive: gullible Lord Danceacre; sweet Violet Denyss; and
degenerate predator, Earl Much.
Yet in the Earl, Mrs Fox has met an adversary whose sadistic viciousness
is a match for her own attempts to destroy him. Games are played with
ever higher stakes, until someone must pay the penalty - but will it be
the innocent or the damned? Through a dark, quick world of liars and
lechers, where infidelity and intellect cross swords with desire or
death, Mrs Fox hurtles towards a horrible climax.
Here is London, 1784 . . . Welcome to a factory of cunning.> >One
freezing May morning, two veiled women step off the boat from Holland. A
French lady, calling her Mrs Fox, and her maid: they are on the run.
Fearing for her life, Mrs Fox must make her way in a strange new city .
. . but both her past and present crackle with danger.
Immoral and beautiful, Mrs Fox has always used men to support and amuse
her. Trusting on her wits to keep ahead of the hangman, she manipulates
others to survive: gullible Lord Danceacre; sweet Violet Denyss; and
degenerate predator, Earl Much.
Yet in the Earl, Mrs Fox has met an adversary whose sadistic viciousness
is a match for her own attempts to destroy him. Games are played with
ever higher stakes, until someone must pay the penalty - but will it be
the innocent or the damned? Through a dark, quick world of liars and
lechers, where infidelity and intellect cross swords with desire or
death, Mrs Fox hurtles towards a horrible climax.
Here is London, 1784 . . . Welcome to a factory of cunning.>
