The Senator's Daughter

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BOSTON, 1829

Julia Webster has grown up the daughter of the renowned senator Daniel Webster and is confronted with her world turning upside down. Still grieving the loss of her mother, she learns her widowed father plans to marry a woman he barely seems to know himself.

As she wrestles with this new reality, she learns more than she counted on about her father’s work. Treasured memories of her late mother’s philanthropic efforts toward Native American causes intertwine with the current reality of Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act which could lead to the displacement of five peoples in the southern United States. In the midst of this upheaval she meets the beguiling Matthew Eaton, the nephew of one of President Jackson’s staunchest allies, who may or may not be on her side.

As Julia continues to throw herself into the cause and considers more drastic action to educate herself further, she’ll be faced with a decision that could cause irreparable damage to her place in her family. What lengths will Julia go to advocate for a cause she believes in?

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PROLOGUE

JULY 1825

“Grace, I’m so glad you’re here. I’m afraid many of the other ladies won’t be joining us,” Mrs. Whittle exclaimed, rushing over to where Julia Webster stood with her mother, Grace, in the wide arched doorway leading into the matron’s small ballroom. Julia had been distracted by the archway’s ornate carvings of roses interspersed with plump, beaming cherubs and turned her attention to Mrs. Whittle who was rather spry in her old age. The tiny spectacles that sat on the bridge of her nose magnified the older woman’s perceptive green eyes and her graying hair was neatly pulled back into a no-nonsense bun. “It seems that they, or rather their damned husbands, don’t care about equal rights for all minorities. How can they offer so much support to Negro abolition and neglect the other groups who are marginalized?”

Lingering respectfully behind her mother, Julia felt mild curiosity toward the cause her mother and Mrs. Whittle were championing this season. Mrs. Whittle was the head of one of Boston’s most influential charity networks and had taken a liking to Grace’s giving nature immediately. The older woman had been a frequent visitor in the Webster home over the years. She always seemed intent on enlisting her mother’s help in organizing the salons she put on to foster awareness about the plight of underrepresented groups to the wives of Boston’s sea captains, politicians, and wealthy businessmen.

Julia had been too young to really appreciate what the two women had to discuss. Even now, she was more intrigued by Mrs. Whittle’s towering home that overlooked the harbor than she was in what the impassioned woman had to say. However, she was twelve now and her mother had determined that Julia was ready to be initiated into the fold, dragging her along on this sweltering day when she would have much rather gone down to wade in the Charles River with her younger brother, Edward. He always seemed to find the eels sunning themselves between the rocks and they would watch, simultaneously fascinated and poised to run if one of the slippery creatures decided it was time to slink back into the river.

“Not that abolition for all Negros should be minimized,” Mrs. Whittle went on hurriedly, bringing Julia back into the present. “That cause will always be our top priority. It’s just that we simply can’t ignore the other groups who have no voice!”

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