“Whip Smart” – True Story of the Sexy Dancer Who Changed Europe

Described as “wild, sexy, flamboyant history”, Whip Smart: Lola Montez Conquers the Spaniards is the rollicking first installment of a new series by debut author, Kit Brennan.

Released last February 17th, the actual birthdate of Lola Montez, the book begins in 1842 London when the gorgeous, ever-capricious twenty-two-year-old Eliza Gilbert, (a.k.a. Lola Montez) is in deep trouble and seeks escape from a divorce trial.

Desperate, Lola accepts an alluring offer of a paid trip to Spain, provided she fulfill a few clandestine tasks for Juan de Grimaldi—a Spanish theatre impresario who is also a government agent and spy for the exiled Spanish queen.

Lola soon finds herself in Madrid, undercover as a performer in a musical play. But when she falls dangerously in love with the target, General Diego de Léon—the “perfect Spanish soldier, lover and horseman”—Lola becomes a double agent and the two hatch a plot of their own.