One Brief Shining Moment
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A young and impressionable Elizabeth Bruce begins an illicit affair with President John F Kennedy, and must decide if one brief shining moment in a Camelot era world is worth destroying everything she holds dear.
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In the summer of 1963 when President John F Kennedy first set eyes on the young Elizabeth Bruce,
she was just a girl from a wealthy American family. But she was different than the other women he had seduced; she was unpolished and unrefined, but there was something fresh and new about her that he craved desperately. And she was entranced by him and the glory and wonder of the Camelot world that he brought with him. Follow Elizabeth's story as she begins an illicit and dangerous affair with the most powerful man in America, and find out just how much it cost to have 'one brief shining moment' in Camelot.
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#52 IN HISTORICAL FICTION (October 2021)
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