until a buried secret threatens to destroy their growing passion

With Alec's help

she’s moved from London to San Francisco to work toward her PhD and minor in cheap whiskey

National Trust

Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation Carpenter until a buried secret threatensAt the dawn of the nineteenth century, as Britain, France, Spain, and the United States all jockeyed for control of the vast expanses west of the Mississippi River, the stakes for American expansion were incalculably high. Even after the American purchase of the Louisiana Territory, Spain still coveted that land and was prepared to employ any means to retain it. With war expected at any moment, Jefferson played a game of strategy, putting on the