title: Calico Palace
author: Bristow, Gwen
description: THEY HAD COME TO SAN FRANCISCO TO ESCAPE THE PAST.
  
  Kendra, nineteen and beautiful, was looking for a man to help her forget her years as an unwanted child.
  
  Marny, audacious redhead, with a talent f or cards, wanted to win independence from her family by setting up a gambling casino.
  
  Pocket was seeking to dull the ache of a love betrayed.
  
  Ted was strangely silent about his reasons for leaving New Fork, but was ambitious-and wanted Kendra.
  
  Then gold was discovered. These people and many others had walked into one of the most spectacular adventures in history. In just three years, San Francisco would grow from a muddy village to a rich, brawling city. Calico Palace is the story of those who found love and joy, fury and fortunes in the frenzied days of the Gold Rush.