Eighty-year-old Jessica Matthews, also known as Lady Marmalade, has already revealed many of her secrets to the world that include living a life far away from the dazzling existence she once imagined for herself. But things are about to change for Jessica when she moves with her family from London to Brooklyn, New York, in April 1914, just before the start of the First World War.

While living in a magnificent house, Jessica makes many friends, plays music and sings, and eventually marries a lovely man, Daniel, and has two beautiful children. Her new chapter is filled with happiness and the best days of her life, especially as her career blossoms, she earns newfound fame, and is cast in the Ziegfield Follies in 1922. But when a chain of events unfolds that ultimately causes things to turn for the worse, Jessica and her family must move back to the United Kingdom where new challenges await that no one, not even Lady Marmalade, could have predicted.

In this intriguing historical novel, an elderly actress reveals the last of the hidden secrets that surrounded her life in the spotlight as she sought fame and happiness.