Now it’s 1910, and the Davenports live surrounded by servants, crystal chandeliers, and endless parties, finding their way and finding love – even where they’re not supposed to. The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage Company years ago. but two very different girls are vying to capture his heart. Most of America adores their devastatingly handsome prince. If he’d been born a generation earlier, he would have stood first in line for the throne, but the new laws of succession make him third. And then there’s Samantha’s twin, Prince Jefferson. except the one boy who is distinctly off-limits to her. Nobody cares about the spare except when she’s breaking the rules, so Princess Samantha doesn’t care much about anything, either. As Princess Beatrice gets closer to becoming America’s first queen regnant, the duty she has embraced her entire life suddenly feels stifling. Each child knows exactly what is expected of them. Like most royal families, the Washingtons have an heir and a spare. Two and a half centuries later, the House of Washington still sits on the throne.
When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General George Washington a crown. with risk-averse Leo and danger-loving Lizzie (plus a kitten named Mayhem) in tow. Infuriated, Grandpa vows to track down the sticky-fingered thieves himself. Despite Leo’s best efforts to avoid it, adventure finds him anyway when Grandma’s beehives go missing in the dead of night. But nothing on the island is more fearsome than Grandpa himself – Leo has never met anyone so grumpy! According to Mom, Grandpa is still grieving the recent death of his wife, a beekeeper beloved by everyone on the island. So when he, Lizzie, Mom and Dad leave the city to visit Grandpa on Heron Island, Leo finds all kinds of dangers to avoid – from the deep, dark ocean to an old barn on the verge of collapse. Unlike his little sister Lizzie, Leo is not a risk-taker.
And while Leo hates the label, he can’t argue with it. Eleven-year-old Leo is an “armchair adventurer.” This, according to Dad, means he’d choose adventures in books or video games over real-life experiences.
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