This is not the White House you think you know…
In 1841, less than a month after taking office, President William Henry Harrison dies, and his Vice President, John Tyler, taunted as “His Accidency,” steps into the breach before Congress can circumvent him and put someone of their choosing in his place. In retribution, Congress withholds the money for upkeep and staffing. John Tyler then populates the White House with his own Virginia house slaves, led by James Hambleton Christian, the half-brother of Tyler’s wife, Letitia. Little do any of them know that something ominous lurks in the spider-infested shadows there. It watches them out of mirrors, and like a coiled viper it strikes…
“The Secret House is a remarkable book, written with rage and compassion and a fine eye for the telling detail. The beautifully complex plot caught me up and made me think about big, important topics like race, class, and the morality of power even while I was feverishly turning pages and being scared silly. And the characters, black and white, rich and poor, will stay with me for a long time.” —Delia Sherman, author of Changeling, The Fall of Kings, and Young Woman in a Garden: Stories.
The Secret House
ISBN: 978-1-68510-148-0 (trade paperback)
ISBN 978-1-68510-149-7 (ebook)
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