new book 2025 fall.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Restless Man -- A Town of Mud and Gold -- Setbacks -- No Place for a Lady -- Assorted Insurrections -- An Ungovernable Woman -- Blue, Gray, and Silver -- The Fortunes of War -- The Silver Magnet -- Love in Bloom -- Provocateurs -- Living Dangerously -- The War After the War -- A City on the Move -- Broken Promises -- Bicoastal Relationships -- Wife vs. Wife -- A Splendid Ruin -- A Threat -- The Restless Ghost -- The Great Man Honored -- Dueling Cliches -- A Female Hercules -- Neither Saint Nor Demon -- The Lady Triumphs

"The sensational true story of a woman who murdered her married lover in Gilded Age San Francisco, and the trial that turned this raucous frontier town into a modern metropolis-from the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Sin"-- Provided by publisher.