Looking for a better life, Nora Simms sails from the East Coast to gold rush San Francisco with a plan for success: to strike it rich by trading on her good looks.
But when a string of murders claims several of her fellow “women of ill fame,” Nora grows uneasy with how closely linked all of the victims are to her. Even her rise to the top of her profession and a move to the fashionable part of town don’t shelter her from the danger, and she must distinguish friend from foe in a race to discover the identity of the killer.
Erika Mailman lives in Oakland, California, where she writes a newspaper column focusing on local history that has run for seven years. She is the author of a novel, The Witch’s Trinity. Visit her website at 
