The Lace Widow

New York, 1804. America´s beloved Alexander Hamilton lies dead after a duel with Aaron Burr. Meanwhile, Eliza Hamilton´s eighteen-year-old son, Alexander Jr., was seen fighting with a man in a tavern the night before his father´s duel and quickly comes under suspicion for murder when the man turns up dead. Eliza searches for ways to clear her son´s name, even as she is grieving, but as she combs through her late husband´s papers, she finds evidence of a plot to steal money from the government during his tenure as secretary of state. Hamilton was accused of stealing that money, and it was a scandal that almost broke the family-but is Eliza now holding proof of Alexander´s innocence? Deep in debt and despair, with eight children to support, Eliza turns to selling her handmade lace-and is drawn into a mysterious network of widow lacemakers who are intimately connected to New York´s high-society families. They know their dead husbands´ secrets-and soon, Eliza begins to piece together the truth. There´s a dark plot connected with the duel, as one by one, witnesses to the bout are being killed. Now, Eliza must not only clear her husband´s and son´s names but keep herself out of the killer´s sights.