The Depth of Beauty: BOOK 2 IN THE GOLDEN CITY SERIES
In 1903 San Francisco’s Chinatown, slavery, polygamy, and rampant prostitution are thriving— just blocks away from the city’s elite, progressive society.
Wealthy and well-connected, Will Firestone enters the mysterious enclave with an eye toward expanding his shipping business. What he finds there will astonish him. With the help of an exotic young widow and a gifted teenage orphan, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery, where lust, love and tragedy will change his life forever.
A stand-alone novel, The Depth of Beauty is the latest addition to the dual genre series, “Sinner’s Grove,” which chronicles the family and friends of a world-famous artists’ retreat on the northern California coast. The stories follow both historical and contemporary tracks and can be read separately or together for greater depth. Other titles in the series include the award-winning The Art of Love, Sinner’s Grove and The Lair.
The Depth of Beauty, has earned the following awards:
- A Notable Indie Book of 2016
- 2017 RITA Finalist – “Mainstream Fiction with a Central Romance”
- Bookstores without Borders Lyra Award for Historical Fiction
- Chanticleer Book Reviews Goethe Award – First in Category: North American Turn of the Century
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For more information about the Chinese community in San Francisco during the 19th and early twentieth centuries, as well as the Plague of 1900, check out the following books:
- Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco by Judy Yung
- Chinese San Francisco 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community by Yong Chen
- The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase
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