In this volume of the life of Lady Christine Patterson, the Duchess of Ramapo and secretly known as Lady Lace has settled down to more private and ordinary life. She has two children in her care. She bore her own son, Victor, as a result of her love with the Baron Wiktor Andruszkiewicz. Wiktor was off serving in the American war of revolution with Casimir Pulaski. Victoria is the daughter of her deceased and dear friend Countess lady Elizabeth Farthington Andruszkiewicz. She had married late in life to the Count Andrej Andruszkiewicz living in Amsterdam. They had found true love that manifested itself in the child she bore. Lizzie was not a young woman when she gave birth and died in the result of hemorrhaging. Andrej was indeed even older than Lizzie and he was beside himself on his wife's passing and died from a broken heart. Before Lizzie passed, she asked her closest friend Christine to take her daughter and raise her as her own. She took the children to London and raised them as her own. Being a Duchess affords her the privilege to do this with no repercussions from society. Christine was living a quiet life as a mother and lady of leisure.But, trouble came to her from her former homeland across the sea in America. This trouble came in the form of her once sister-in-law Rowena Kingston Patterson. She is now divorced from Christine's brother Robert Pip Patterson. She has taken her rightful title of Countess Rowena Kingston along with her brother, Lord Count Douglas Kingston, in England. Rowena now resides in London at Kingston Hall with her brother. With her, come her five friends and former ladies of her brothel in Charleston to help her wage a war of revenge against the Patterson family. She financially ruined Pip's new wife, Marie, and now she intends to ruin his stately sister, Lady Christine. Her intentions are to learn of her indiscretions and make them known to the Crown as acts of treason.An unexpected war develops between Rowena and Christine. Lady Lace and her lovely Ladies are called back into action to defend Christine's honor and the lives of her family and loved ones. The losses will be heavy on both sides.
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