In a novel based on a real-life case, 1920s New York society is set ablaze when Alice Jones, a working-class woman with at least one black parent, marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of a wealthy, prominent family, who makes international headlines after he sues for annulment, accusing her of hiding her "Negro blood."

New York, the Roaring Twenties. 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-- and Kip later sues for an annulment, accusing Alice of having hidden her "Negro blood" and intentionally deceiving him that she was white. As the Rhinelander case sets tongues wagging, we follow their story: from courtship through marriage to the shocking divorce trial and its aftermath. -- adapted from jacket