The Courtesan
by Julia Justiss

After surviving Waterloo, Captain Jack Carrington returns home to take up his family duties and find himself a wife. Until he encounters Lady Belle, the most beautiful and celebrated courtesan in all of London.

After the death of her long-term protector, Belle intends to spurn the entreaties of her London admirers and retreat to her country manor. Then a fencing match gone wrong with the arresting Jack Carrington upsets all her careful plans.

Who is the mysterious Belle? A jaded Cyprian seeking a new protector? A kind friend who helps those in need? A mistress of sensual delight who can lead a man into irredeemable folly? Though Belle is a woman Jack can neither afford to keep nor dare to marry, he is willing to risk everything to find out.

Julia Justiss' Bio

After twelve years as a vagabond Navy wife, an adventure that took her from Virginia Beach to Monterrey to Tunis, Tunisia to Oslo, Norway and back, author Julia Justiss followed her husband to his family's East Texas homeland where, except for summer jaunts to New England to visit her family and escape the brutal Texas heat, she's lived ever since. In between teaching high school French to keep her three children in braces, music lessons and dance team, she pursues her first love—writing historical fiction.