In 1806 the Russian chamberlain Nikolai Rezanov sails into San Francisco Bay to buy food for the starving colony at Sitka, in defiance of Spain’s closed ports. At the Presidio he matches wits with Governor Arrillaga and Commandante Argüello and falls in love with the commandante’s daughter Concha, the most celebrated beauty of Spanish California.
A romantic retelling of one of California’s best-loved true stories by a writer steeped in its history. Download the free EPUB.