Regrettably, I am About to Cause Trouble

<p>1535, Oxfordshire.</p><p>Lady Maude Shaftsberry has it all sorted. She will marry the well-connected lord, ascend the ranks of the Tudor court, and be mother to a small battalion of boys. But Maude has a secret that she carries everywhere: a birthmark that stretches over her stomach and between her legs. Is it a mark of fertility? Did her mother rub her pregnant belly too vigorously on the full moon? Or is it the sign of a witch?</p><p>Her new husband is certain it's the latter. Maude, faced with annulment and the nunnery, must make her own way.</p><p>The witches in town are the only ones who will give her refuge, but staying in the apothecary comes at a price. She must help and assist the witches. Surrounded by potions, star charts, a fairy, who appears to be a very large and handsome man who helps around the house, Maude begins to realise there is a strange and seductive power in being outcast.</p><p><em>Regrettably, I am About to Cause Trouble</em> is a tale about being ostracised, and finding our power and family in unusual places.</p><p><br></p>