The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr (Thorndike Press Large Print Historical Fiction)

About this book

Aaron Burr was a hero of the Revolution a brilliant politician lawyer and nearly president; a survivor in a raw new country filled with constantly shifting loyalties. Sold into slavery as a child in India Mary Emmons was brought to an America torn by war. She quickly gains the trust of her new mistress Theodosia Prevost and becomes indispensable in a household filled with intrigue -- especially when the now-widowed Theodosia marries Colonel Aaron Burr. As Theodosia sickens with the fatal disease that will finally kill her Mary and Burr are drawn together into a private world of power and passion and a secret tangled union that would have shocked the nation.