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Departing from the English settings of her previous novels (The Stolen Crown; The Traitor's Wife), Higginbotham transports readers to the final months of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the aftermath. Dual narrators Mary Surratt and Nora Fitzpatrick, a resident of Mary's boardinghouse in Washington, DC, provide overlapping and differing perspectives on events that led to Mary's conviction and execution for her role in the murder of the president. With one son in the Confeder...Log In or Sign Up to Read More