Once upon a secret. Mimi Alford. 2013.

In 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley found herself working as an internet at the very hub of American power. Within days she had started an affair with the charismatic and sexually rapacious president, John F. Kennedy; a relationship that was ended only by his assassination eighteen months later.

After forty years of silence, Mimi finally reveals her darkest secret.

But this is not just a coming-of-age memoir from the 1960s. It is also an examination of the significant impact the affair had on the rest of Mimi’s life and on her subsequent relationships with those closest to her.