Although it's been up as a Kindle book since October 2010 (too early, really), it has gone through multiple tweaks. I have just completed the latest (February 11, 2011) and I hope final tweak before arranging for this book to be produced on paper.

I've added these acknowledgments after the very slightly revised epilogue. Just want to share them with anyone, curious about the book, who wonders onto this page:

I would not have kept working at this odd little novel without the encouragement and support of my wife Barbara, an avid reader of fiction who loved the tale and whose suggestions, editing and proofing kept me going through a two-year rewriting and revising process.
I am grateful to our friend in publishing, Gabrielle Brooks, for her brilliant and hard-nosed critique of an early draft, and to another family friend, also in the publishing business, Lisa Higgins, for her professional editing and guidance.
This story was inspired by Thomas Jefferson, his family’s devotion to him and his marvelous homes near Charlottesville and Lynchburg; and by Annette Gordon-Reed’s landmark Jefferson history, “The Hemingses of Monticello,” which brought him to life for me more vividly than any book I’d ever read — until this one.