Amber St. Clair means to get on in life, and despite a poor background, she knows she has the assets to do it. Husbands, lovers, prison, and a liaison with King Charles II form a tapestry of apparently calculating ups and downs, although in fact the one love of her life, Bruce Carlton, is never far from Amber's thoughts.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.