First Lady of the New World

A brilliant and beautiful Creole commoner rises to become the most powerful woman in the New World, and a hero of the American Revolution.Felicite St. Maxent, the brilliant and beautiful daughter of a wealthy businessman in colonial New Orleans, is tragically widowed at the age of eighteen. She soon meets the dashing young Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez on his first day as governor, and despit...