“An engaging historical novel with original characters, a compelling story line, and a setting rich with evocative details.”
—John D. Nesbitt, Spur award-winning author of Great Lonesome

The 1849 Gold Rush is no place for a refined young woman on her own, but Quinn MacCann plans to become a businesswoman—independent and capable of earning her own way.

To escape her wealthy but abusive father with her inherited dowry intact, she marries a stranger, a man so new to the area that her powerful father doesn’t control him. But freedom and independence are more costly than she imagined.

With Quinn’s hopes and dreams buried deep by secrets, she flees to California’s gold country, a rugged man’s land where only the strong survive. Battling blackmail, fraud, and deception, she must face the most divisive lie of all—her own.

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