Sarabande "Sary" Swinford is handed over to her brother
Sebastian,
following the death of her husband Jonathan. In 1897, Seb
drags her to
Big Bear, California to seek their fortune mining gold.
He uses Sary like his
mule. Delacorte's saloon houses hardened females working
as
prostitutes and is owned by Julian Delacorte and his grown
son Jules.
Hannah "Handi" McAdams offers Sary a job at her
establishment, warning
her of the hardships she will endure on the mountain
searching for gold.
Nearly starving while Sary is doing most of the work, Seb
strikes a deal to
sell her to Julian to ease his own life. Refusing to
succumb to the
arrangement begins a chain of events giving Sary more
abuse than she
could imagine. Seb dies in an accident at the bottom of a
mineshaft
leaving Sary to cope with Julian's son and a henchmen when
she is
brutally assaulted. The attack resulting in their death,
leaves Sary forced
to bury all three while keeping Jules death from his
father. Finding gold in
the mine excites her by continues her horrendous life of
drudgery, work
and starvation as she hides her treasure. All the while,
fighting for her life
changes this once innocent woman into being conceived by
the townsfolk
as somewhat of a legend and witchery. Barely able to
exist on her own
only results in strengthening this very independent and
strong woman.
Prepare to enjoy your trip through the hard and tough days
of the past
with this brave and tough woman. SARY'S GOLD is full of
action, all driven by
the clever mind of this unusual and strong woman, learning
to deal with
the hand she's dealt. Written in the era of that day,
Sharon Shipley very
colorfully portrays the difficulties needed to survive and
exist. The action in this
story depicts the excitement of what we have all viewed in
the movies of
the West during the gold rush years.
While battling a brutal town and one obsessed man, Sary
must
change into a ruthless, determined gold miner/outlaw in
1890s California. Upon the untimely death of her husband,
Sary is forced into her brother’s charge. Neither is
pleased
with this arrangement. He's an impotent, sadistic dreamer
with ideas of striking gold, using his sister as his mule.
Sary finds herself in a surreal nightmare living under a
tarp, panning for gold, and looked on lustfully by the
debauched in the closest town. A brutal attack by
Delacorte’s son, her brother’s accidental death, the
discovery of a gold vein as big as Texas, and surviving
winter all come together to make Sary a thing of legend
and
witchery. She is now hunted as fair game, barely escaping
with her life.
Ultimately, Sary returns exacting revenge in an ultimate
showdown with a little help from the man she loves.
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