Memoirs of a French Courtesan Volume 4: Payback (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798990303447)

"I had to try or die. That may be the only advantage I had over Robert right then. Since my fall wasn't as far as his, my ruin was not as devastating. He was obliged to head for the ends of the earth. But I could stay and try to recover my money from my enemies in court."

There is never a dull moment in Céleste Mogador's life, not even in this final volume of her memoirs. Her lover, Robert, is disgraced and disowned and on his way to the mines in Australia. She throws herself into her work at the theater to cope while at the same time battling Robert's family to recoup the money he took from her. Ghosts from her past reappear. And during it all, she's raising her goddaughter to be a respectable woman.

Kristen Hall-Geisler is the author of the novel Skull and Sidecar and translator of Voyage Around My Room by Xavier de Maistre. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, US News & World Report, and others.