The life and times of Elizabeth Elmes

A young girl, through unusual circumstances is taught the use of both the sword and the flint lock pistol, and she makes good use of both, but because of her innocence she is seduced, bears a child, by a man that is only interested in her family’s money. He father is a good man but a miserly one. Then there’s highway men whose heads end up hanging from the back of the carriage. An old woman who teaches her about life and the use of herbs, and just about everything else, including a cure for the pox. French spies who think that because she’s a woman they can get the better of her. That’s a mistake they won’t make again. Saving the incurable kings life. Battles against the French. Stranded Irish Leprechauns, who now run a cartage service from the London docks. And of course what would Leprechauns be doing without their pots of gold. And then there’s a few Fairies thrown in for good luck. And as I don’t like unhappy endings, love of course, in the end, conquers all