M. Warner Annals

An epic train ride forges an uneasy peace between a strange, rebellious woman and the two men sent to escort her from Louisville, KY to Washington, DC.

When Mary Warner is requested to attend a meeting with her estranged godfather, President Ulysses S. Grant, she quickly finds that an invitation from the office of the President is an offer she...

An epic train ride forges an uneasy peace between a strange, rebellious woman and the two men sent to escort her from Louisville, KY to Washington, DC.

Having saved Merritt and Argent from certain death, a rescue that surprises even herself, Mary Warner’s initial wariness of the men begins to develop into an almost hysterical suspicion and...

Secret Service operatives Merritt and Argent are redirected, once again, from their usual duties to help in the case of Mary Warner, a woman they escorted, during the entire month of April, from her farm in Kentucky to meet with President Grant in Washington. Two months later, they find that M — as they have come to know her — has escaped the...

Before there were birth announcements there were death announcements, delivered on special mourning stationery — paper and envelopes, edged in black. From autumn 1870 to autumn 1871, M. Warner received nearly a dozen such notices, recounting the deaths of the same men: Secret Service agents Argent and Merritt, men who were little more than...