A Love Like No Other: Abigail and John Adams, A Modern Love Story

Passion, heartbreak, scandal and triumph. Abigail and John Adams endured it all.

It was a marriage of unequal equals. The timeless and universal battle between men and women for control, comfort, respect, a voice.

"Remember the ladies!" Abigail wrote to John at the Continental Congress in March 1776. A cry to give women the vote, a legal say - finally! - in their own lives in the new country they were creating.

He ignored her.

She was furious.

Still, she persisted, and adored him. Her soulmate. And by sheer force of personality, she forged, as much as can be created between two human beings, a true partnership.

In a time when childbirth was taking your life in your hands, she hungered for him. And he wanted her. "My wife! My Wife!" She bore him six children and buried four. Death - smallpox, yellow fever, alcoholism, cancer - was an ever-present shadow, politics as backbiting, frustrating and divisive as today, friendships frayed yet loyalties sometimes held, and love endured. Despite unendurable separations, inflation, war, shipwreck, and loss, they stood against all comers. Together.

They lived 200 years ago but their love affair was as modern as any today. They married in 1764 against both of their mothers' wishes. Passionate, independent, and determined, Abigail worked to raise, educate, and launch their children while John labored to midwife a new nation.

A Love Like No Other is a timeless story of struggle, ambition, heartbreak and triumph, but most of all it's the story of an enduring love against all odds.