The son of a tobacco-roller, Lewis Rand grows up in the shadow of Monticello, studies law and becomes a rising Republican politician in the Virginia of Thomas Jefferson. He marries Jacqueline Churchill of the Federalist gentry, but his rivalry with her cousin and an ambition that reaches toward the Burr conspiracy threaten everything he has built.
A serious, richly detailed historical novel of the early Republic by the author of To Have and to Hold. Download the free EPUB.