Mount Vernon Love Story A Novel of George and Martha Washington

InMount Vernon Love Story-- famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark's long-out-of-print first novel -- the bestselling author reveals the flesh-and-blood man who became the "father of our country" in a story that is charming, insightful, and immensely entertaining.Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled itAspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued asMount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife, Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives -- even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge -- in every way. In this author's skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive.

Mary Higgins Clark is the author of twenty-eight worldwide bestsellers. There are seventy million copies of her books in print in the United States alone. She lives in Saddle River, New Jersey.