| If you think San Francisco
is wild now, you should have seen it in 1850. In 1849,
San Francisco's gold fever sparked an unprecedented maelstrom of opportunity that
drew the eccentric, corrupt, powerful and cunning from every corner of the known
world. Overnight, San Francisco's mud clogged streets, tents and shanties would
be transformed into a bustling Babylon of American wealth and ingenuity with paved
streets, railroads and brick buildings. In the eye
of this midas storm comes an unusual woman from the South- Mary Ellen-a lady whose
cultured demeanor masks a deep personal secret. Neither the city's swaggering
thugs called the "Hounds," the explosive power of the "Vigilante Committee" or
the calculated U.S. Government's attempts to influence San Francisco are prepared
to stop Mary Ellen's growing political and financial empire. She is the haunting
Pale Truth, determined to end slavery in America, and to transform San Francisco
into the pearl of the pacific. But everything has a price, even for Mary Ellen.
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