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Forgotten pregnant and broke on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare handles, by utilizing her wits, beauty, and courage, to rise to the greatest position a lady can accomplish in Repair England—that of preferred mistress of the Merry Monarch, Charles II. From highwaymen and whores to courtiers and noblemen, from activities like the Great Plague and the Fire of London for the passions of ordinary—and ladies and extraordinary—men, Emerald encounters everything. But throughout her escapades and tests, she stays, in her heart, trueto the one man she truly loves, the one man she cannot have.