Your Journey to The Golden City begins here...A SAGA OF PASSION...SECRETS...AND SCANDALA tale of mystery, social injustice and second chances during America’s Gilded Age, The Art of Love will take you on an unforgettable journey from the last frontier of the Yukon Territory to the new Sodom and Gomorrah of its time - the boomtown of San Francisco.After digging a fortune from the frozen fields of the Klondike, August Wolff h...

Slavery...Polygamy...Prostitution...and the Plague--The Golden City Has Its Secrets.A 2017 RITA Finalist in Mainstream FictionIn 1903, San Francisco's Chinatown is teeming with vice just blocks away from the Golden City’s aristocrats, but wealthy Will Firestone sees the district as a potential market for his shipping enterprise. Dazzled by an exotic young widow from Canton, he is drawn into the immigrant enclave, a ...

The Golden City is in peril…and so is Tom Justice."This excellent story, with well-researched historical detail, is a profile of resilience in the face of vast tragedy." Publisher's Weekly"A well-thought-out legal drama, full of intrigue and duplicity." Kirkus Reviews1907: Former surgeon Tom Justice sits in a San Francisco jail on murder charges. The attorney hired to defend him is...

HE’LL RISK EVERYTHING TO KEEP HIS WORD... IF THE GOLDEN CITY WILL LET HIM.April 18, 1906. A massive earthquake has decimated much of San Francisco, leaving thousands without food, water or shelter. Patrolling the streets to help those in need, Army corporal Ben Tilson meets a young woman named Charlotte who touches his heart, making him think of a future with her in it. In the heat of the moment he makes a promise to her family that even he...

A Family Shattered by Secrets… Now in the Crosshairs of a MurdererAt fourteen, Jenna Bergstrom’s perfect family started to unravel—a few years later it tragically fell completely apart.As an artist, she’s learned to channel her emotions, but that control is put to the test when her ailing grandfather asks her to help restore the family’s legendary artists’ retreat known as Sinner’s Grove. Reluctantly she agrees to step in, but there...

She Confronted Her Demon - and He Wanted Her Back.After her playboy father dies in a racing boat mishap, innkeeper Daniela Dunn must travel from Northern California back to Verona, Italy and her childhood home, an estate called the Panther’s Lair. To say she’s reluctant to go is an understatement.In fact, she’s petrified.The mansion she grew up in holds terrifying memories and deeply buried secrets. It’s a place where appearances are deceiving and t...

Jonathan Perris Can’t Save His Clients…Until He Saves Himself1907: Rising from the devastation of a massive earthquake and fire, San Francisco is once again on the move. But a strike by streetcar drivers threatens to halt the Golden City in its tracks. Protests turn to violence and violence leads to death. Soon a young guard is convicted of willfully killing a protester and the public is out for blood.Jonathan Perris, an immigrant a...

A Fortune in Stolen Jewels, a Centuries-old Vendetta: Let the Shell Game Begin.Award-winning jewelry designer Regina Firestone is proud to exhibit her famous grandmother’s multi-million dollar “bauble” collection at the grand re-opening of The Grove Center for American Art, known among the locals as “Sinner’s Grove.”The fact that she’s considering modeling the jewels in the nude like her grandmother did infuriates photographer Walker Banks, a co-owner of Th...

A 2019 Finalist in Women's Fiction for the Independent Author Network (IAN) Book of the Year AwardWhat's worse than a mother like Josephine? Turning out to be just like her.In the late nineteenth century, wealthy and headstrong Kit Firestone chafes under the strictures of the Golden City’s high society, especially the interference of her charming but overbearing mother, Josephine. Kit’s secret rebellion leads to potentially catastrophic res...

HAS SHE LOST HER MIND ... OR HAVE THEY?1907: While exploring the remote possibility of contacting her dead husband through a spirit medium, a young widow is pronounced insane and committed to an asylum against her will. As she struggles to escape the nightmare she’s been thrust into, she is stripped of everything she holds dear, including her identity and her reason to live. The fight to reclaim what is rightfully hers will test every aspect of her...

Drama. Suspense. Romance.You can now begin a page-turning multi-generational American saga --- with the first books of two series, plus bonus material for one low price!A.B. Michaels writes historical and contemporary fiction whose stories are woven through the friends and family of a unique artists’ retreat in northern California.In The Art of Love, self-made Klondike King August Wolff moves to turn-of-the-twentieth century San Francisco h...

Anthem is set in a distant collectivist future, when every form and emblem of individualism has been erased and society has reverted to a preindustrial level. In this novella, as many of her writings, Ayn dramatizes her philosophy of Objectivism in the main character. Its hero is a scientist in a world where the pursuit of knowledge is a crime, and he struggles against the established society to discover the meaning of individual freedom.