"Set in 1920s New York, an addictively readable, thoroughly entertaining historical novel involving sex and secrets, race and redemption, and power and privilege--based on a sensational real-life case that made international headlines--in which the marriage between a working-class black woman and the scion of one of America's most powerful white families ends in a scandalous annulment lawsuit. When Alice Jones, a blue-color woman with at least one...

"The bitter and public court battle waged between Nina and James Walker of Newport, Rhode Island from 1909 to 1916 created a sensation throughout the nation with lurid accounts of--and gossip about--their marital troubles. The ordeal of this high-society couple, who wed as much for status as for love, is one of the prime examples of the growing trend of women seeking divorce during the early twentieth century. Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness--the...

Ladies' Man: The Life and Trials of Marvin Mitchelson is the extraordinary saga of Marvin Mitchelson, the ruthless Hollywood divorce lawyer who, intoxicated by his own success, lived the life of a user - of his clients, of women, of drugs, of publicity. Ladies' Man shows how the things he so cleverly manipulated to fuel his fame and fortune eventually came back to haunt him. Award-winning author John A. Jenkins brings to life the sensational trials...