Railroad Schemes Author:Cecelia Holland An unlikely banditry duo--a thirtyish Irish migr and a fifteen-year-old girl who packs a Remington and reads Jane Austen--profit (and lose) in the 1850 railroad wars: Holland's latest gritty, action-thumping tale set in Old Los Angeles. Lily Springbreeze Viner, motherless daughter of a small-time gambler and crook who taught her to shoot but wou... more »ldn't allow her to go to school, cherishes her books more than anything else, books that tell her there's a kind of life other than robbing and running in Nevada Territory. When a stagecoach job is planned with red-haired King Callahan, Lily agrees to play a part as long as there's no killing--despite the fact that she'll be riding in the coach with one-armed Brand, the shrewd and dangerous Railroad agent.« less