Beneath a golden veil : a novel / Melanie Dobson.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Grand Haven, Michigan : Waterfall Press, [2016]Description: 344 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1503937712
- 9781503937710
- Underground Railroad -- California -- Sacramento -- Fiction
- Fugitive slaves -- California -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Sacramento -- Fiction
- Gold miners -- California -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | Dobson, Melanie | Available | 33111008563161 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
As elegant as the Sacramento residence she operates, Isabelle Labrie keeps her past concealed, like the treasure she hides under the Golden Hotel. It's 1853, the heyday of the California Gold Rush. Isabelle is full of hope, staking her claim on the city's refined clientele and her future on a sweetheart's promise to marry her when he returns from the gold fields. Then, unexpected guests--fugitive slaves seeking safe passage to the North--force her to confront her past and reconsider her path.
While Isabelle learns to trust God's provisions, a law student in Virginia must confront his father's cruelty and rescue a young slave from his family's tobacco plantation. As the two escape to freedom, and Isabelle risks everything to harbor runaway slaves, the past and present are set on an inevitable collision course--one that reveals hidden treasures of the heart.
As elegant as the Sacramento residence she operates, Isabelle Labrie keeps her past concealed. It’s 1853, the heyday of the California Gold Rush. Isabelle is full of hope, staking her claim on the city’s refined clientele and her future on a sweetheart’s promise to marry her when he returns from the gold fields. Then, unexpected guests, fugitive slaves seeking safe passage to the North, force her to confront her past, reconsider her path, and trust God's provisions.