The Lovechild — Julia Watson

SYLVINE

Sylvine was young, innocent and alone in the world -- alone, in an era when base-born girls could hope for little more than to serve the perverse pleasures of nobility. Her mother had been such a creature -- a wayward serving girl, taken one night by a mysterious stranger who left only a gold locket as the clue to his identity. The only other clue, less tangible, yet evident to all who set eyes upon her, was the child born of that feverish encounter -- Sylvine. Her regal beauty and unmistakably noble bearing bore witness to the fact that her father had been a nobleman…THE LOVECHILD