Queen Lucia — E.F. Benson

Lucia was beautiful. Lucia was brilliant. And though Lucia was most suitably married and a reigning queen of society, that did not stop Lucia from wanting more ... whether it was an elegant sophisticated man to act as her official lover...or a world of fame and fortune to be hers to command.

This novel introduces the most irresistible, irrepressible woman in all of literature -- a captivating creature who recognized no law but that of her own desire, and no boundaries to what her wit, wiles and will could do.