Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome takes Victorian England by storm when she lands on its shores. When the 19-year-old beauty agrees to marry Randolph Churchill, whom she has known only three days, she's instantly swept up in a whirlwind of British politics. Drawing upon historical events, this novel follows Jennie as she gives birth to future Prime Minister, Winston, but is inescapably drawn to the seductive Count Charles Kinsky, an ambitious Austrian diplomat. Their affair only intensifies as Randolph's sanity frays, and Jennie—a woman whose every move on the public stage is judged—must walk a tightrope between duty and desire.