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Winner, Midwest Fiction, National Indie Excellence Awards
Finalist, Historical Fiction, National Indie Excellence Awards
Longlisted, Best Indie Book , Shelf Unbound
Silver Medal, Plains Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Honorable Mention, Historical Fiction, The Eric Hoffer Book Award
“A beautifully written, compulsively readable tale
that gives voice to this fascinating, larger-than-life figure
from a neglected corner of history.” – Indie Reader
The year is On a May midnight, Eliza Haycraft flings herself into a canoe to escape a husband who beats her and a life that does the same.
Deanies dempsey biography books
She is penniless and illiterate. Yet a decade later, sex and secrets will make her the wealthiest woman in St. Louis, a frontier boom town at the western edge of a restless nation.
In exotic New Orleans and then in St.
Louis, with only herself to rely on, Eliza becomes a prostitute and madam, then a property owner and puller of strings. She tangles w