The 1,036 days of John F. Kennedy's administration culminated with perhaps the most consequential day in American history.Camelot's Secret Legacy explores the life of McKenna Casey Gordon, the biological daughter of JFK and Marilyn Monroe, through a Secret Service agent assigned to the presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza on 11/22/1963. Dominick Welles protected Lancer (the Secret Service code name for the President Kennedy). Camelot, the term Jackie Kennedy used to describe their days in the White House for a Life magazine article published one week after her husband's assassination. What if Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy had a secret daughter and she lived to tell the tale? Historical fiction can offer a visceral, fairy-tale-like resolution to a tragic reality.
"James Pomerantz is a polished author who grabs the readers from page one "
- Rob O'Neill - SEAL Team Six, Operation Neptune Spear and New York Times bestselling author of The Operator...Firing the shots that killed Osama Bin Laden
"James Pomerantz introduced me to Mary ten years ago. Magic is the perfect way to describe
her. Camelot's Secret Legacy is an amazing book."
- Tom Hruby - SEAL Team One and Co-author of The Breacher's Playbook
"Camelot's Secret Legacy is a fast-paced mystery thriller that makes the reader do exactly what historical fiction is designed to do...imagine the past and what could have been. I imagine that years from now, presidential fairy tales will abound."
-Mike Leonard, former national correspondent for the NBC Today Show (32 years) and
the bestselling author of The Ride of Our Lives (2006 Random House)
"I knew Mary well. If she was ... she never breathed a word. But now, Camelot's Secret
Legacy lays out a life that manages to keep brushing up against one of America's favorite
myths, that takes you right up to that eyebrow-raising moment: There's no way ... is there?".
An intriguing read from start to finish."
-Greg Taucher - Hope Faculty Fellow Professor of Practice, Michigan State University