The General's Mistress

A Dutch woman flees her marriage to become a courtesan against the backdrop of the French Revolution in this steamy historical novel described as Girl with a Pearl Earring meets Dangerous Liaisons.. Liberté Egalité Sensualité. . . . . As a spirit of change overturns Europe’s old order strong-willed Elzelina Versfelt enters her own age of revolution. Married as a romantic young girl to a man who wanted only her money but neither loves nor desires her Elza refuses to be chained any longer. Leaving Amsterdam her marriage and her home she flees to France—where the old rules no longer apply debauchery is not a sin . . . and nothing is forbidden. . Yet Elza finds herself bound in a new way to the ambitious General Moreau. And while they share pleasure pain and carnal adventures she dreams of another man an unruly red-haired soldier she first saw in the promise of a Tarot card. Drawn by this half-real half-imagined hero Elza defies her relationship with Moreau and begins a perilous search across war-torn Europe. . . . But will this woman with the instincts of a survivor the passion of a courtesan and the gift of second sight ever find the destiny for which she has risked it all? . This stunning novel blends history with the language of the heart to tell a sensual story of an era of upheaval . . . and of the clamoring dangerous desires of a woman’s soul.