A love affair tests a new nation\'s revolutionary ideals.
But even as the uprising takes hold, Eliza can\'t help but wonder whether a rebel victory will grant her and John the most basic of American rights..
Their love leads to her exile in Braintree, Massachusetts, home to radicals John and Abigail Adams and Eliza\'s midwife sister-in-law, Lizzie Boylston.
As the chaos of the Revolutionary War tears her family apart, Eliza finds herself drawn to her uncle\'s slave, John Watkins.
In 1770s Boston, a prosperous merchant\'s daughter, Eliza Boylston, lives a charmed life--until war breaches the walls of the family estate and forces her to live in a world in which wealth can no longer protect her.
A love affair tests a new nation\'s revolutionary ideals
