She was a beautiful young innocent, driven into the sins of womanhood by the dark desires that ruled men's hearts.
602 pages
You will never forget Lily--as a child watching her mother die in want...as an orphan struggling to protect her reckless brother...as a teenaged innocent discovering the power of desire..as a fear-filled young girl learning to sell her body in the most elegant brothel in the wickedest city on earth...as a captivating beauty whom men would pay any price to possess...as a mother deperately trying to keep the truth from her daughter...as a woman forced by love to return to the city of her shame and seek to conquer it...
And you will never forget Lily's story--as it moves from the Hell's Kitchen squalor and Fifth Avenue splendor of old New York...to the rolling decks of a great clipper ship...to the brawling streets, the fantastic pleasure palaces, the magnificant Nob Hill mansions of San Francisco, through storm and earthquake and fire in a breathless saga of love, intrigue, and illicit passion...
602 pages
You will never forget Lily--as a child watching her mother die in want...as an orphan struggling to protect her reckless brother...as a teenaged innocent discovering the power of desire..as a fear-filled young girl learning to sell her body in the most elegant brothel in the wickedest city on earth...as a captivating beauty whom men would pay any price to possess...as a mother deperately trying to keep the truth from her daughter...as a woman forced by love to return to the city of her shame and seek to conquer it...
And you will never forget Lily's story--as it moves from the Hell's Kitchen squalor and Fifth Avenue splendor of old New York...to the rolling decks of a great clipper ship...to the brawling streets, the fantastic pleasure palaces, the magnificant Nob Hill mansions of San Francisco, through storm and earthquake and fire in a breathless saga of love, intrigue, and illicit passion...
