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‘There was about her a kind of warm luxuriance, something immediately suggestive to the men of pleasurable fulfilment . . .’ 
 
1644, and Amber St Clair’s birth leads to her noble-born mother’s death. Raised in secrecy and ignorance of her true origins, Amber is aged sixteen when she learns the power of her voluptuous beauty. 
 
Attracting the eye of soldier Lord Bruce Carlton, Amber is first tumbled then whisked away to London. In a city of highwaymen and whores, courtiers and conmen, she finds both opportunity – and danger. For nearly all see in Amber a girl to possess, then discard. 
 
But Amber – abandoned, pregnant and penniless – knows her beauty is more blessing than curse. As plague and fire ravage the city, she uses her charms to licentiously rise from the gutter to the bed of the King of England. 
 
Yet always, Amber’s heart pines for the man who took her virtue and stole her heart – Lord Bruce Carlton . . . 
 
 
‘The length of the book, the flash and roar and colour and excitement and general naughtiness, spring from the author’s passionate fascination. Quite simply, it entertains you in the most preposterous, flamboyant way’ Atlantic 
 
‘Packed with melodramatic action, rich with historical background’ New York Times

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