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It is the end of the 17th century, and the Countess Ashby de la Zouche is having rather a bad time. The money is long gone, along with the Count, and while the Countess has no mealy-mouthed scruples about renting out her person, fewer gentlemen than one might think appreciate the mellow, nuanced charms of a mature lady. In short, it's looking like a very hungry winter, until a new possibility arises: A job as a professional gossip columnist for one of London's daily tabloids. Peering into bedroom windows may not be the most respectable of occupations, but respectability loses a certain amount of its allure when the alternative is debtors' prison.

Fidelis Morgan is an English actor, director, and writer. Morgan has a strong interest in Restoration era theater, which is reflected in her historical mysteries in the Countess Ashby de la Zouche series published by Felony & Mayhem. In 1981 Morgan published the remarkable The Female Wits, which was followed by Female Playwrights of the Restoration, books that rediscovered and brought to public attention the work of forgotten female playwrights of that period, and included both biographical details on the women, and the full texts of their plays. The character of the Countess Ashby de la Zouche was partly inspired by the life of Delarivier Manley, a 17th century playwright and pamphleteer whose biography (A Woman of No Character) Morgan wrote.