Mount Vernon Love Story
Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel. She originally titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington’s mother. More recently discovered by a Washington family descendant, the book has now been reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story.
Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax (his best friend’s wife), Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and love.
Theirs was a bond between two people who shared their lives — even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge — in every way. In this author’s skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive.
- About the author: Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller, and all of her novels remained in print as of 2015.
