When Alice Jones, a blue-collar woman with at least one Black parent marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of one of New York's most prominent society families, the scandal rocks high society. Kip later sues, accusing Alice of having hidden her "Negro blood" and intentionally deceiving him that she was white. Chronicled by Alice's attorney, Lee Parsons Davis, and told in flashbacks and entries from Alice and Kip's fictional personal diaries, this epic page-turner brings to life the New York of a century ago - a world seemingly far removed yet tragically familiar to our own.