The Measure of a Lady
Gist follows her popularA Bride Most Begrudging(2005) with a -damsel-in-distress tale set in 1849 San Francisco, where Rachel Van Buren is marooned when her gold-crazed father dies. Rachel must also care for her two young siblings. She finds a city filled with mud and sin, and there is no other decent woman, or "sunbonnet," in residence. She'll have to adjust her straitlaced outlook or die, and adjust she does in this amusing, often almost titillating tale brimming with period detail.John MortCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.