A surrey crawls through the frozen California foothills on a January night, carrying a bonanza king whose silver fortune has bought everything except happiness for his family. When his son’s hasty, ill-judged marriage collides with a snowbound meeting and a new love, the family fortune is drawn into a tangle of deceit, bigamy and San Francisco society scandal.
A richly observed novel of Gilded Age California by a writer who knew the mining camps and the Nob Hill drawing rooms alike. Download the free EPUB.