BEAUTIFUL. PASSIONATE. PURSUED BY TRAGIC SCANDAL...
 
Outcast and penniless, she arrived at Morrisania, home of New York statesman Governor Morris, to be his housekeeper. However, Nancy Randolph's aristocratic beauty and gentle bearing soon won the irascible gentleman's heart. When she married him, and bore him a son, her happiness at last seemed secure. Then came a letter out of her tarnished past, and the tragedy that had ruined her girlhood once again threatened to destroy her life. 
 
Parting the curtains of history to reveal one of America's most fascinating heroines—and a tantalizing mystery which shocked a new nation—"Barbara Bentley has infused her tale with the temper of the times and made believable a young girl coping with her father's remarriage, a dying lover, and her own romantic delusions." 
 
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