Nancy Pickard reveals a centuries-old secret passed on to Bess Truman that threatens the very foundation of the White House... Anne Perry turns the White House red when Edith Wilson finds a blackmailer dead on the floor... Judith Kelman unveils a First Lady-to-be who has deadly bad hair days... Pamela Fesler loses herself in inauguration mischief with Lou Henry Hoover...P .M. Carlson unwraps a kidnapping plot surrounding Mrs. Grover Cleveland's beloved daughter, Baby Ruth... Gillian Roberts serves up a deliciously sweet tale of deception and intrigue at Dolley Madison's White House... Sarah Shankman replays the Watergate scandal and erases all memory of Nixon's good Republican wife... and a host of other writers deceive, thrill, and entertain us with these fascinating First Ladies who know that life at the White House can be murder.

Complete list of stories: (All stories copyright 1999)

• The Secret President
      Barbara Paul
• Political Decision
      John Lutz
• 'A' Is for Adams
      Carolyn Wheat
• You Run
      Sarah Shankman
• The Bachelor's Wife
      Judith Kelman
• Lost at Sea
      Pamela J. Fesler
• Madame President
      Anne Perry
• The Mother of Our Country
      Linda V. Williams
• Dolley Madison and the Staff of Life
      Barbara D'Amato
• Alice Holds the Cards
      Jennifer Waddell
• Jackie-O
      Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Goodbye, Dolley
      Gillian Roberts
• Portal
      T. J. MacGregor
• Adams and Evil
      Sarah Booth Conroy
• A Tale of Two Sisters
      Richard Timothy Conroy
• The Second Lady
      Peter Crowther
• The First Ladies' Secret
      Nancy Pickard
• Mrs. Lincoln's Dilemma
      Janet Dawson
• Julia Grant, a.k.a. Private Eye"
      Jan Grape
• Blood in Buzzard's Bay; or, Sweets to the Sweet
      P. M. Carlson