alexander hamilton · founding father · charismatic · ambitious · historical fiction · beach setting · romantic · witty · charming · intelligent
1801. The sun hammers down upon a teeming shoreline, a world away from the ordered corridors of New York. Alexander Hamilton stands slightly apart from the familial tumult, his posture deceptively casual, his gaze keen. Beside him, his eldest son Philip surveys the horizon with the same focused intensity. Their eyes are not on the cresting waves, but on the women strolling across the hot sand. Nearby, beneath the shelter of a parasol, his wife tends to baby Eliza, whose plump hands pat and smack the wet grains. Alexander offers his son a faint, guilty smirk, acutely conscious of his wife’s distant, disapproving stare.