Rebecca Madison

Early Childhood
Rebecca Jones - maiden name Rebecca Madison - is the second daughter and second oldest child of Lord James and Lady Diane Madison.

Growing up, she and her younger siblings - twins Micah and Suzanna -, were close. Often, sleeping in the same bedroom when they got scared and playing together. Rebecca used to be a wild-spirit, never sitting still and always adventuring around the grounds of the Madison's estate. She was close friends with Zachariah and Daniel Jones, the twin son's of the Madison's colored groundskeeper, Marcus Jones.

As she grew up, Rebecca's wild-spirit calmed and she become a "true member" of high society. After the death of her younger brother, Micah, and a minor scandal, Rebecca was sent off to boarding school, while the Madison family picked up the broken pieces of their lives.

Romance with Zachariah Jones
Zachariah and Rebecca are childhood friends turned lovers. When the two were young in their teens, they realized their mutual feelings for one another. Afraid of how both their parents would react, the young lovers hid their romance. However, they were discovered on the same night that Micah Madison's death. Resulting in Lord and Lady Madison sending Rebecca to boarding school shortly after Micah's funeral.

Zachariah and Rebecca kept in touch through letters for a time, but as the years went on and Zachariah become closely involved in the London's gang-activity, the two become estranged.

In 1940, when Rebecca returns home from school, four years after she was sent away, Zachariah - now having cleaned up his act - and her romance is almost instantly rekindled upon seeing one another again. Unfortunately, Zachariah's old gang-boss, Damian, is not keen to let Zachariah escape so easily and uses Zachariah's connection with the Madison family to steal. However, the further Zachariah and Rebecca's romance goes on, the more resistant Zachariah is to be used as Damian's pawn. Eventually, he stands up to the gang-boss.

In retaliation, Damian attempts to shoot and kill Rebecca, but Zachariah protect her with his body, taking a gunshot in the shoulder. Zachariah, who was going to be drafted, is unable to fight and instead his twin brother, Daniel, is drafted. Zachariah and Rebecca's romance is fully revealed; and to their surprise, their immediate family is supportive.

Rebecca discovers in 1941, that she is pregnant with Zachariah's child. Later the same year, in the fall, she gives birth the couple's first child, a son, Alexander Holland Madison-Jones. The pair is married the following spring. Welcoming their second child years later, in 1944,