The Secret Spouse of Aaron Burr: A Riveting Untold Story of the American Revolution

Impressed by a girl and occasions forgotten by historical past, bestselling writer Susan Holloway Scott weaves collectively fastidiously researched reality and fiction to inform the story of Mary Emmons, and the place she held within the life—and the guts—of the infamous Aaron Burr.

 

He was a hero of the Revolution, a superb politician, lawyer, and really practically president; a skillful survivor in a uncooked new nation stuffed with consistently shifting loyalties. Right now Aaron Burr is remembered extra for the deadly duel that killed rival Alexander Hamilton. However lengthy earlier than that single shot destroyed Burr’s political profession, there have been different darkish whispers about him: that he was untrustworthy, a libertine, a person unafraid of claiming no matter he believed ought to be his.

 

Offered into slavery as a toddler in India, Mary Emmons was dropped at an America torn by struggle. Toughened by the experiences of her younger life, Mary is clever, resourceful, and robust. She rapidly good points the belief of her new mistress, Theodosia Prevost, and turns into indispensable in an advanced family stuffed with intrigue—particularly when the now-widowed Theodosia marries Colonel Aaron Burr. As Theodosia sickens with the deadly illness that may lastly kill her, Mary and Burr are drawn collectively into a personal world of energy and fervour, and a secret, tangled union that will have shocked the nation . . .

 

 

Reward for I, Eliza Hamilton

 

“Scott’s devotion to analysis is clear . . . a rewarding tackle an enchanting historic couple.” 

—Library Journal 

 

“Readers might be captivated.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred overview)

 

“Filled with political and historic in addition to home particulars.”
—Booklist