Mary and I: The Real Story of Miss Mary Mack: 1

Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack all dressed in black black black... Weve all heard the clapping game song sung by children all over the world. But who exactly was Mary Mack and what are those silver buttons? Taking historical fiction to an all new level Alexander G.J. takes you back in time to New York City in the early 19th century to the world of Mary Elizabeth White an eccentric British-born socialite who rubbed elbows with some of the most powerful families in the world. She was also a suffragette opera singer pianist formidable fencer and is rumored to have lived in a lighthouse on Fifth Avenue. When the RMS Lusitania is sunk by the Germans it sets into motion a series of magical events connecting Marys fate to the oncoming war as well as a tragic accident at a circus in 1897 involving elephants and a little American girl whose own world gets turned upside down. What is Marys connection to the American girl and is she part of her fathers tragic past?