Perilous Journey of the Not-So-Innocuous Girl

Lady Marguerite lives a life most 17^th-century French girls can only dream of: money, designer dresses, suitors, and a secure future. Except she suspects her heart may be falling for her best friend Claude, a common smithy in the family's steam forge. When Claude leaves for New France in search of a better life, Marguerite decides to follow him and test her suspicions of love—only the trip proves to be more harrowing than she anticipated. Love, adventure, and restitution await her if she can survive the voyage.
 

Leigh Statham has had many jobs including being a waitress, a math teacher, a nurse, an art director, and a thirty-foot inflatable pig and mule wrangler. She was raised in the wilds of rural Idaho, but found her heart in New York City. She lives in North Carolina.