
In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But in the turbulent America of the 1850s, everyone knows her as Belle Cora, madam of San Francisco's finest bordello. Judges and senators do her bidding;...

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Memorable at every turn and set against the backdrop of a nineteenth century America that was, like the novel's protagonist, many different things all at once. -EDWARD RUTHERFURD, author of Paris In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name,...