The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr

Summary

Eug├®nie Bearhani (1760–1835) was born in Calcutta, raised in Haiti, and brought as a servant—a free woman of color—to America by an English officer on the eve of the American Revolution. Yet none of that prepared Eug├®nie for her next employer: Colonel Aaron Burr, a man some whispered had made a pact with the devil.

The lines between master and servant soon tangle and blur, and first attraction becomes dangerous obsession. Many historians deny she even existed, but Eug├®nie and the children she bore to Burr were very real—and so was her little-known marriage to America's first true villain.