She was the daughter of a founding father. Keeping his secrets was her inheritance.
Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph grows up knowing her father’s first love is liberty, not family. After her mother’s death, she becomes Jefferson’s confidante and caretaker, even following him to revolutionary France. There, amid glittering salons and political unrest, Patsy uncovers a truth she can’t unlearn—her father’s relationship with enslaved teenager Sally Hemings.
Patsy wants a future with William Short, her father’s idealistic protégé. But loyalty to Jefferson threatens that dream, forcing her to choose between independence and obligation.
Years later, as scandal and ruin swirl around Monticello, Patsy becomes the keeper of Jefferson’s legacy. But what happens when protecting his reputation costs her everything?
What’s left when the truth is a threat too dangerous to tell?
