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Eliza Somers, a founding raised by brother & sister Jeremy & Rose Somers in Chile, leaves her aristocratic but very restrictive life to follow her lover to California during the Gold Rush. Having stowed away on a ship & nearly dying, she poses as the younger brother of a Chinese healer named Tao Ch'ien who saved her life. As she wanders through the mining areas seeking her lost love, she finds it more advantageous & safer to pose as a young man. She encounters a wide variety of people during her
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I listened to the audiobook, and I'm still trying to figure out how this one made its way onto my SimplyAudio que. I'm not familiar with this author, and I doubt I'll read any of her other work. Perhaps my biggest complaint was that the book was full of "tell", but not a lot of "show". The author covers so much time and space that I felt like I was only hearing about the characters, not experiencing them. And the ending, oh boy. It was as if the author had just had enough of the characters and d
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