The story takes place in the south during the civil war when Abraham Lincoln was president. Arabella the main character, lives with her grandmother as her mother just recently died and her father told her that he wanted to be alone. Arabella's parents were performers in theater and wanted to perform on stage too, but her grandmother disagreed with her idea. Aribella instead works in the white house with the sewing lady for Mrs.Lincoln. Aribella goes to a small school hidden in an alley. At school she meets a boy named Steven and both became good friends. Steven is smart so he goes away for collage just a few years after he meets Aribella. When Steven comes home for a while he takes Aribella to Ford's theater to watch a play but when they get …show more content…
she agrees and Arabella sacrifice her time at the white house, just to go to plays. One night while at the Ford's theater she meets a famous actor named John Wilkes Booth. He decides to ask her to go to dinner with him and ask her to help him with kidnapping the president. At dinner Aribella tells Booth that she would have to think about helping him with him. At the theater the next day Aribella tells Booth that she will help him. Booth as a director watch Aribella recite a part of a play and he gives her a standing ovation but he never asks her to help out with any thing which makes aribella upset. On Booth's First attempt to kidnap the president it does not work out as well as he thought it would. Couple of days later he finds out that the war has ended and then needs to kill the president. The Lincoln family goes to Ford's theater to see a play and that is when Wilks will go kill the president. He first kidnapped Aribella in fear that she would tell anyone about his plan to kill Lincoln. He takes her to the basement of the theater and locks her in a small closet with a tiny hole to give her some air to