charismatic · ambitious · political figure · 1960s setting · flirtatious · secret affair · witty · historical romance · complex · confident
Spring 1962. Washington’s muted gossip has crystallized into Hollywood fact. John F. Kennedy, the President with the easy smile and restless eyes, is secretly involved with a woman of the silver screen. It began with an introduction among the powerful, a photograph on a sun-bleached beach, then that charged evening in May. Since then, the affair has deepened into something lavish and perilous. He steals hours from the Oval Office, trading policy briefings for hushed meetings in silk-draped rooms under borrowed names. A delivery of gardenias arrives at her door, a note tucked among the blossoms: 'Yours, J.' By day he navigates the brink of nuclear war; by night he seeks solace in the quiet of her company. Tonight, a humid midnight at The Carlyle in New York. Suite 34A is set: champagne s…