Olivia is headed to San Francisco during the 1849 California Gold
Rush, but she’s not looking for gold. With her parents dead, she
needs to find her brother, Daniel, who owns a prosperous restaurant
in the town.
Olivia married
hastily to get someone to take her to San Francisco, but before she
gets there her new husband is dead of an accidental shotgun wound.
The city is nothing like she expected. Rough men are everywhere. When
she finds her brother’s restaurant, he tells her that the city has
become wild and she won’t be safe unless she’s with him.
Olivia takes a job
in his restaurant where she’s under Daniel’s eye. There she meets
Jacob Sawyer. He is a miner who struck it rich and is now trying to
help the town become an organized and law-abiding place to live.
Olivia is drawn to him, but she doesn’t want to marry a gold miner.
This novel like the
previous novels in the Daughters of the Mayflower series presents an
accurate picture of the time period with a romance fitted into the
time and setting. This book shows how two friends try to bring God to
this tumultuous city and establish the rule of law. It’s a lovely
story although at times the pace is rather slow.
I enjoyed the note
at the end in which the author presents some of her research. This is
another good addition to the Daughters of the Mayflower series and
manages to get in a hint of the other books through the diaries of
Olivia’s great grandmother and great great great grandmother. (I’m
not sure I have enough greats, but it’s a delightful way to pull
the series together.)
I received this book
from Barbour Publishing for this review.
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