In the home where Arabella was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But out there in the turbulent America of the 1850s everyone knows her as "Belle Cora," madam of the finest bordello in Gold Rush San Francisco.
Judges, senators and wealthy businessme[...]
A sweeping historical novel based on the extraordinary life and times of Belle Cora, the daughter of a New York merchant who went on to become a millworker, a prostitute, a notorious madam, a murderess, and eventually one of San Francisco's richest and most revered dowagers.
Some people remembe[...]