Lois Leveen
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"Masterfully written, The Secrets of Mary Bowser shines a new light onto our country's darkest history."
-Brunonia Barry, bestselling author of The Lace Reader
"Packed with drama, intrigue, love, loss, and most of all, the resilience of a remarkable heroine….What a treat!"
-Kelly O'Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
Based on the remarkable true story of a freed African American slave who returned to Virginia at the...
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An enthralling new telling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet-told from the perspective of Juliet's nurse. In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant enters the household of the powerful Cappelletti family to become the wet-nurse to their newborn baby. As she serves her beloved Juliet over the next fourteen years, the nurse learns the Cappellettis' darkest secrets. Those secrets-and...