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When Emilia Lennox loses everything after her husband’s lands and title are confiscated, her beauty is her best bargaining chip with the only man who can restore their fortunes: King Charles II himself. But the king’s favour comes at a price. He will pardon Emilia’s husband only if she agrees to be his mistress. Torn, Emilia comes up with a condition of her own: she will consent, but not until her portrait hangs among the famed Windsor Beauties, a series commissioned by the Duchess of York to showcase the fairest women in the royal retinue.

La protagonista de esta novela tiene treinta y cinco años y es estéril cuando la Idea de ser madre se le mete en el cuerpo «como un cáncer». Cinco años y dos hijas después cree haberlo ganado y perdido todo. Es entonces cuando decide escribir una historia a vida o muerte, un duelo entre la escritora que fue y la madre en que se ha convertido.

The Ashes weaves in and out between reality and fantasy, between the past, the present and another place in time altogether. Hollywood gets lost in his daydream as he drifts through another dimension to make sense of his friend’s sudden death. Moments in the hospital mingle with dark terror in a far off desert as The Cowboy battles the terrible Fire Serpent in a vain attempt to save his friend The Marlboro Man’s life. In some senses the story is autobiographical, in others it is fictional fantasy.