The Viscountess
Samantha
History describes British Governor Strype as a capable but overmatched commander eventually driven out of Freedom by the wilier Joseph Clark. This version of events omits how Strype quickly realized he was losing the intelligence battle and sent for help of the most vixenish sort. Formally, she was Lady Samantha, Sixth Viscountess Savory of Sudbury, but she was better known simply as the notorious Viscountess.
No one who ever met the striking, raven-haired, voluptuous Viscountess ever forgot her, especially the countless men who eagerly surrendered their fortunes and secrets to her, only to be tossed away like rubbish. Those she could not seduce, she bought, and the rest she had killed, knowing full well consequences don’t exist for rich, beautiful nobles like her.
During the war, she developed a special hatred for Joseph Clark, one of the rare men with the integrity and fortitude to resist her charms. She also waged a continuing war of secrets with Lady Liberty I, with neither gaining the upper hand. Their conflict carried on throughout the colonies until Lady Liberty’s demise in an ambush orchestrated by the Viscountess. Her triumph was short-lived however, as soon after, the “contemptible little peasants” in the colonies won their independence. At long last, the Viscountess found herself in a situation she couldn’t manipulate to her liking.
Her first real defeat drove her to distraction, and soon after, she vanished from sight. Some say her many affairs caught up with her, and she lived out her days locked in a sanitarium suffering “the ailments of Venus.” Others say she settled into a faithless marriage with a wealthy nobleman, carrying on innumerable affairs and raising a trio of daughters to follow in her vile footsteps.
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