{"product_id":"mary-elizabeth-surratt-sidney-st-james-9798245553863","title":"Mary Elizabeth Surratt: \"Please Don't Let Me Fall!\"","description":"On a night meant for celebration, a single gunshot shatters the joy at Ford's Theatre-and Washington City slams shut like a steel trap. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy dawn, detectives swarm Mary Elizabeth Surratt's quiet H Street boardinghouse, turning breakfast tables into witness stands and parlor whispers into capital evidence. Was Mary the silent hinge on which the conspiracy turned-or simply the most convenient neck to fit a noose? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom gas lit streets slick with soot and rumor to a plank-floored military courtroom ringed with bayonets, this gripping historical thriller follows a nation drunk on grief and hungry for vengeance. Testimony shifts like sand. Neighbors avert their eyes. Friends forget the truth at the threshold and swear a different one under oath. Witnesses trade stories for promises, fear, and freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the iron clock over the prison yard scratches forward, each minute becomes a footstep toward the scaffold. Mary's daughter pounds on locked doors, shoves petitions beneath shutters, pleads with men who never remove their gloves. Mercy arrives too late. Justice moves too fast. And the rope waits for no one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThreaded with intercepted letters, sudden arrests, shadowy informants, and testimony bought and broken, this novel plunges into the fevered heart of a city reeling from war and into a courtroom where soldiers keep the time and verdicts are stamped faster than prayers can form. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWas Mary Surratt a monster-or a martyr?\u003cbr\u003eAfter Lincoln fell, someone had to hang.\u003cbr\u003eThe question that haunts every page is why it had to be her-and who wanted it that way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sidney St James\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798245553863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d","brand":"Sidney St James","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665264316671,"sku":"9798245553863","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e1989e1b-9ea5-45cc-9a49-0d6b216c23f9.jpg?v=1792011012","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mary-elizabeth-surratt-sidney-st-james-9798245553863","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}