Mistress Agnes

Agnes had been deliriously happy married to Frederick Beauchamp, a respected, self-assured landowner. And when he died of consumption after a long sickbed she had been devastated, until help came from an unlikely direction.
Having picked up her life on her late husband's moorland estate, the young widow was ready to love again, but not to deliver herself to another man. This time, she would be in charge.
Eager to make love to a dominant man without being ruled by one, she devised a plan to be overcome in the bedroom but keep control of her own life. And when she found a deserter on the moors, dying of exposure, she thought it was her wish come true.
Set in the Victorian era, Mistress Agnes is a romance in which a brave young woman defies the laws and customs of her time, but also has to face her own fallibility. It is a story of love and of loving, the latter in ways that are not generally associated with Victorian morals.
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