For over 50 years, Mary Anne Hamilton heard,” Your life sounds amazing. You should write a book.” She’d been an unwed mother as a junior high student, a rape survivor who gave away her baby at 15, and a young bride and mother at 17. A few years later, she was a 31-year-old cocktail waitress and soon-to-be-divorced mother of five when she was swept off her feet by Laurens Morgan Hamilton, great-great-grandson of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and grandson of global financier, J. P. Morgan. They married in 1966 but she knew little about Hamilton’s legacy until she saw Broadway’s Hamilton musical 50 years later. Helena Reynolds has been writing her immigrant family stories for nearly 50 years. After numerous book rejections, she sold a few stories as articles and spent the next 45 years as an assistant teacher, ministry administrator, program coordinator, and wannabe writer. Rand Scholet, founder of The Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society, was a mutual friend who suggested Mary Anne and Helena, both unpublished writers, work on Mary Anne’s ‘memoir plus’ book together. Also included are 90 little-known facts describing Hamilton’s American contributions and QR Codes to additional online resources. The first edition of Destined to Be a Hamilton was released in August 2023. In early 2024, the eBook was ranked as a #1 Amazon Bestseller in two categories, and a #1 Amazon Hot New Release in five categories. Not bad for beginners. This expanded edition, republished by Sunbury Press, also includes Discussion Questions and an Epilogue.