The Conqueror

At dusk, Nevis pulls a cloud around herself like a night robe, taking it off and arranging it again until the island is satisfied. Beneath that proud beauty, a family story is beginning—one that will lead to Alexander Hamilton.

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton opens in eighteenth-century Nevis, where wealthy planters live in stone mansions above cane fields and the island’s fortunes seem secure. Then the focus narrows to Rachael, a woman making her way through a difficult marriage and the strict expectations of colonial life. As her family’s circumstances press in, the child she bears will inherit both hardship and possibility. What will shape the future of a boy born on this small Caribbean island?

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