Unwise Passions : A True Story of a Remarkable Woman and the First Great Scandal of 18th Century America

The author revists the eighteenth-century “Jezebel of Virginia” case to recreate one of the most sensational trials in American history in which Nancy Randolph, a young woman from one of the wealthiest and most socially prominent families in Virginia, played a key role in the murder trial of her brother-in-law, who was accused of fathering and killing an illegitimate child. 20,000 first printing.