I’m so thrilled to announce the release of my newest novel, a labor of love, The Women of Chateau Lafayette. ABOUT THE BOOK An epic saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy. Most […]
Read More →Congrats to Stephanie on her forthcoming new novel… This novel, which is, in part, about America’s Favorite Fighting Frenchman, is what Stephanie has been working on for the past two years. And you’ll recognize some characters from all of our novels together between these pages. Here is the cover, in all her glory, for The […]
Read More →We’re so grateful that the country’s first president gave this hysterical abut touching review. He really enjoyed MY DEAR HAMILTON! (Posted with permission. Please check out the excellent work of George Washington by Vern Frykholm.)
Read More →One of the most interesting family dramas we got to write about in My Dear Hamilton was the elopement of Angelica Schuyler. Our protagonist, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, was quite close to her sister Angelica and it wasn’t a leap for us to imagine the tumult of her emotions when Angelica escaped the Schuyler Manor to […]
Read More →Yesterday, while on tour for the launch of our new novel about Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, we got the amazing news that My Dear Hamilton hit the USA Today Bestseller list in its release week. This is all because of you, readers and we’re so grateful! This book was a labor of love–our endeavor to show […]
Read More →We delete scenes from America’s First Daughter for a variety of reasons – sometimes they don’t move the story along, sometimes they are repetitive of other scenes, sometimes they’re too tangential to our heroine’s personal experiences, and sometimes the goal of the scene can be accomplished in a better way. Deleted scenes posted on this website have not gone through the […]
Read More →We delete scenes from our books for a variety of reasons – sometimes they don’t move the story along, sometimes they are repetitive of other scenes, sometimes they’re too tangential to our heroine’s personal experiences, and sometimes the goal of the scene can be accomplished in a better way. Deleted scenes posted on this website have not gone through the […]
Read More →We deleted scenes from America’s First Daughter for a variety of reasons – sometimes they didn’t move the story along, sometimes they were repetitive of other scenes, sometimes they were too tangential to Patsy’s personal experiences, and sometimes the goal of the scene could be accomplished in a better way. Deleted scenes posted on this […]
Read More →In America’s First Daughter, we posit a life-long romance between William Short and Thomas Jefferson’s daughter Patsy. But how much of it is true? According to Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph’s biographer, Cynthia Kierner, some manner of romance of unknown intensity and duration blossomed in Paris between Thomas Jefferson’s teenaged daughter and his secretary, William Short. […]
Read More →We did it! Readers posted photos of America’s First Daughter from all fifty states. To celebrate, and to thank you, Stephanie is giving away the mother of all Jeffersonian prizes in time for Independence Day, including a tote bag, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness coffee mug, a quill pen set with ink, a […]
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