She was a servant's daughter who became the most famous woman in Europe. He was England's greatest naval hero. Their love affair scandalized a nation and destroyed them both. L. Adams Beck reconstructs the meteoric rise and tragic fall of Emma Hamilton: the beautiful girl from nowhere who captured the heart of Admiral Lord Nelson, who turned the tables on society's snobberies by making herself the most celebrated woman of her age through sheer wit, charm, and her legendary "Attitudes" performances. But the price of passion was ruin. As Nelson sailed into battle at Trafalgar, Emma was already drowning in debts her lovers had left her. This is a story of desire and ambition, of a woman who refused to be invisible, and of the devastating cost of loving a legend. For readers who crave historical fiction that treats its heroine as a flesh-and-blood woman rather than a footnote to a hero's glory.
