Bay Lands: A Novel

The Frozen River goes West: After inheriting a rancho in 1874, a young Californio woman takes on the slave traffickers and robber barons of Gilded Age San Francisco who covet her family’s prime Bay Area real estate.

San Francisco Peninsula, 1874: Old California collides with the Industrial Age when twenty-year-old Mexican Irish mestiza Marisol Griffin inherits a failing rancho after the death of her grandmother, a legendary healer. Overnight, Mari is thrust into unfamiliar roles: midwife, ra...