Maestra

Judith Rashleigh spends her weekdays as an assistant at a well-regarded London art gallery, where she is often overlooked and underappreciated. Her evenings belong to a very different world: she works as a hostess at one of the city's champagne bars, a place with a reputation for its exclusive clientele.

Judith has reshaped herself to fit in. She softened her accent, studied wine, learned which fork belongs with dessert, and mastered the discretion her jobs demand. Her goal has been to earn a respectable future by following the rules.

That plan collapses when she is dismissed after exposing a troubling secret within the art world, and her hard-won attempt at a better life falls apart with it. With nowhere else to turn, she reconnects with an old companion who once helped her endure every humiliation, a presence called Rage.