The Calico Club
by Marjorie Knorr
Category: Fiction

The Calico Clu Darlene McGill wants to go to college and study art. When she saves the life of biologist Randolph Burke on the northern Nevada desert, it's love at first sight...until he discovers she works at the Calico Club, one of Nevada's legal brothels. Though Randolph can't deal with her profession, he needs her help monitoring the endangered birds he's discovered. She agrees, on one condition: that he help her apply to college. When Darlene arrives on Randolph's doorstep in Reno, he agrees to a platonic sharing of digs in exchange for her housekeeping. As Darlene and Randolph break down class barriers, they begin to trust one another and build a friendship-and more. Blossoming in college, Darlene begins to forget her history and even hope for a future. Then the blackmailing phone calls begin.