The Vizard Mask

Read The Vizard Mask Storyline:

It's 1664 and Puritan Penitence Hurd arrives from America armed with
nothing but her faith, a bag filled with wampum and tobacco and the
address of her long lost aunt. The address takes her to the Cock and Pie
on Dog Street, a brothel with a Madame who goes by the moniker of "Her
Ladyship". Told that her aunt is long gone and most likely dead and with
no where else to go Penitence accepts a position as seamstress as Her
Ladyship is surprisingly reluctant to allow her to whore like the
others. Plague soon breaks out and all on Dog Street are quarantined in
their homes to catch it and die or survive the forty days and be freed.
Penitence's room is across the way from room rented by the mysterious
Henry King and they strike up a strange friendship as Henry teaches her
to use The Vizard Mask to become someone else and thus lose her terrible
stutter As the plague loosens its hold Henry and Penitence share one
night of passion before he gains his freedom and disappears from her
life.
Fate has a few unfortunate surprises for Penitence (pregnancy,
Newgate, illegal pamphlet printing to name a few) and many times the
only way to get past it is the oldest way in the world, but she will do
anything to keep her independence. Once she sees the glitter and magic
of the King's Theater she is determined to beat the odds and make it -
although when she crosses one of King Charles' rowdy noblemen and he
strikes back she's willing to give up her freedom for royal protection
(no it's not who you are thinking it is). As she settles into a safe,
albeit boring life with her royal protector, Penitence gets a shock when
Henry King once again drops into her life and his name is not Henry
King.......
That's as far as I'm going, if you want to know more then read it
for yourself. Penitence's story begins just before the Great Plague of
London through to the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion and it's aftermath to
the coronation of William and Mary. Fans of Charles Stuart be warned,
he does not come off looking too pretty in this one, he's portrayed at
his rutting, double dealing worst here.