And now with the end of the war, 35 year-old Captain Sir Robert Nichols, Baronet is ready to settle down as a country gentleman in his family home and lands. At seventeen he was involved in the first massacre of the Civil War. At sixteen he was in charge of a company of soldiers. So begins Hope's journey, transformed into a well-educated, well-dressed courtesan fit for a king.Īt twelve years of age Robert Nichols killed his first man trying in vain to protect his sister from five men of His Majesty's cavaliers who have ransacked his family's house looking for treasure. Beautiful, young, and virginal, Hope is to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, destined not as a common whore but a wealthy man's mistress. But that same day upon returning home to the brothel her mother announces her own plans for Hope's future. Her rescuer is everything she'd hoped, tall, handsome, gallant, a soldier and a true gentleman. When she is rescued from being trampled underfoot during a procession, Hope believes that her dreams are about to come true. In London of 1651, wide-eyed, innocent fourteen year-old Hope Mathews dreams of being more than her mother, a prostitute and brothel owner.
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