A novel set in the antebellum period about a New Orleans "Fancy Gal," a woman of mixed heritage who served as a wealthy planter's mistress. Isadora DeVille, a Creole from New Orleans becomes the fancy gal of a Savannah Planter whose obsession with her leads to her imprisonment. But Miss DeVille is a woman before her time in that she does not define herself by her harlotry alone. Instead, she learns to use everything she has including her beauty, sexual prowess, and most of all her intellect to advance her cause which is freedom. Her struggle becomes persuading white men to acknowledge her personhood and her birthright to freedom. Her strategy includes making deals with the devil. But along the way, Isadora realizes there is more to life than "fancying around" for the finest French gowns, alluring perfumes, and elite social privilege. The Master's sexual exploitation and brutality of enslaved women on a Savannah plantation opens Isadora's eyes into redefining her worth and her future. From Savannah and her eventual return to New Orleans, she discovers her true beauty, relevance, and purpose.