To that end she decides to hold a party in honour of her two new house members, John and Emma. Their house sees two new additions Drayton Pennington the new footman and Emma Trask, the orphaned cousin of Prudence Schlesinger and whom Eliza takes on as a maid.Soon Eliza finds herself wanting to match make, specifically Emma with her brother John. She soon realizes that she is pregnant after a dream in which her mother asks her to name the baby Philip after her father. Until Eliza begins complaining about Rowena's cooking and feeling unsettled in the morning. However, after eight months of trying, there seems to be no baby on the horizon. Now well established in the home on Wall Street, Eliza and Alex are working on starting a family.

To replace him, Eliza and Alex have taken on Rowena's nephew, Drayton Pennington, her sister Nigella's son. Simon, the son of their cook, Rowena has moved to the Beekman estate where he is working as a groom. Other changes in their household include taking on a new footman. John who is nine years younger than Eliza is the only surviving son of the Schuylers and great things are expected of him. Alex and Eliza are at the top of the New World social ladder in New York, especially with Eliza's family connections to the Van Rensselaers, Livingstons and others.Įliza and Alex meet her younger brother, seventeen-year-old John Schuyler who is arriving in New York to study at Columbia, formerly King's College. Caroline Childress was the widow of a British soldier who fought against the Continental troops in the War of Independence. The novel opens in June of 1785, with Alex and Eliza, happily married, living for the past two years in a growing and bustling New York City.Alex is beginning to make a name for himself as a lawyer having won the Caroline Childress case. All For One is the third and final installment in Melissa de la Cruz's Alexander Hamilton trilogy.

All For One by Melissa de la Cruz