Secrets Worth Killing For: A Founding Fathers Mystery: 2

Scandals lies political hatreds a fiercely contested Presidency and a Congress deadlocked by partisan conflict - Sounds familiar? Its 1797! No one paid much attention when Bridget LeClair died - not that is until Thomas Jefferson was accused of killing her. Jefferson had secrets worth killing for to be sure - his affair with his slave Sally Hemmings and his role (if the rumors were true) in Senator Blounts treasonous conspiracy. He wasnt the only one Bridget knew however who might have dangerous secrets to hide. When Senator Jacob Martin became involved albeit most reluctantly in trying to find out who really killed her it won him no friends to say the least. He and the Senate Doorman James Mathers had to unearth the scandals of some of the countrys richest and most powerful men. The political cost was as bad as Jacob had feared but even worse was the damage to his budding relationship with Elizabeth Powel. Secrets Worth Killing For takes you back to the crisis-ridden years of the late eighteenth century when the survival of the United States was still in doubt - when powerful enemies surrounded the fragile young nation like birds of prey and bitter internal conflicts threatened to tear it apart.