adventuress

Eve Babitz was in her teens when she declared to her mother, “I think I’m going to be an adventuress.”

Like a great tabloid headline, The Adventuress by N.D. Coleridge promises a lurid story that spares no detail.

The Adventuress By N.D. Coleridge A social-climbing seductress sleeps her way to the top of society.

Her third book, about the world-traveling adventuress, actress and yoga evangelist Indra Devi, will be published by Knopf in 2012.

Mme. Vauquer sought her eagerly, but was never able to obtain a trace of this adventuress.

There was, for instance, no faithful old family butler, no sinuous foreign adventuress.

Maria the dancer was romantic, but Maria the adventuress was a whole leap beyond that into the realm of fantasy.

She had, in her high moments, believed herself an adventuress whose poise and plans nothing could unbalance.

And we also suspect caves and bandits, Louise knew exactly the effect this would have on Grace, the adventuress.