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By Kalen Vaughan Johnson

Gold Rush California's infamous "Legislature of one thousand beverages" launches a mystery consortium of frontier barons, triggering the cave in of self sufficient mines all through Sierra Nevada.

James MacLaren, a fugitive from Scotland, embarks on a brand new existence in California, escaping his secrets and techniques yet now not his hatred for the higher category. he's a guy continually on his shield, leery of the entitled and cautious of his personal mood. whereas elevating a gorgeous, headstrong daughter, and denying his love for a lady he can't have, he champions miners of their struggle opposed to the Coleridge Sierra speculators trying to maneuver a mining monopoly.

San Francisco's pass judgement on Dandridge sees himself as a guy of imaginative and prescient. but if retributions fail in his court, reparations are administered within the again rooms of vigilante justice. His venal and mercenary machinations tie him to the strong Sam Brannan, the chinese language Tong and a shadowy keep an eye on of the governorship of California.

Robbing the Pillars is a narrative of the operating classification combating for legitimacy opposed to a legacy of gold and all it seduces - a story of hidden pasts, love and betrayal, and the achievement of desires opposed to very good odds.

Robbing the Pillars is the 1st e-book within the Empire Barons series.

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