They call me Madam.
They being the women I protect because the law does not. They being the men I work with, breaking any number of laws on a daily basis. They being the men who love me, and the men who hate me.
I never wanted to be Madam. I set out to run London's most exclusive members-only bar, but then it became the city's most sought after and infamous brothel. And it's not your typical brothel either, because as well as sex work, my girls offer another kind of service, a service I believe this world needs... Because "they" are also the women who kill for me because that's what the dead deserved.
Doing this work comes with great risk, and grim enemies, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't have any of them before this all began. I'd be lying if I said that it was only the women I hire who kill. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't ready and waiting to do it again.
Because while there are many men I need to find - the man who ruined my best friend's life, my missing business partner who knows too much, a colleague on the brink of a breakdown - there's one man who I have been trying to find for over twenty years. A man I blame for it all because of what he did to me.
But I'm yet to find him, and I know I'm running out of time, not least because there is another man, another enemy, coming after me. A man who wants to lock me away because of what I do. A man who knows my weakest link and isn't afraid to exploit it. A man who I can't kill... a man who won't give up.
However, I am the one thing more dangerous than that. I am a woman who won't give up... at least, not without a fight.