Lord of California
Subtitle: a novel
By: Andrew Valencia
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781632460592
Subjects: Bigamy; Families; Fiction
Description: "Set in a future where the United States has dissolved and California is its own independent republic, Lord of California follows the struggles of the Temple family as they work at running a farm on a nationalized land parcel in the central San Joaquin Valley. When the family patriarch, Elliot, dies, it's revealed that he had been keeping five separate families, and in the aftermath of this discovery, his widows and children must come together to keep from losing everything. But their livelihood is threatened when Elliot's estranged son tries to blackmail them, unleashing a series of ciolent confrontations between different factions of the family." -- Page 4 of cover.