Possible Clues:

• Here there's nothing in it to make her so bold
• Lead female character
• Combination of drugs for courageous woman
• Eg, Emma, Jane Eyre
• Romance novelist's creation
• One drug after another for leading lady
• Evangeline or Anna Karenina, e.g.
• Leading lady takes drugs
• However brave she is, by the sound of it, this may have her hooked
• This woman's a person of a special kind, one welcomed