Olga, the Disillusioned — Katheryn Kimbrough

Olga Duvane was blessed with delicate beauty, but cursed by recurring heartbreak. On a night of sinister fog she barely survived a ferryboat tragedy, only to lose her beloved fiance to the merciless currents. By a stroke of fate, roguishly handsome Jeremy Pendergrast, friend and associate of the mighty Hayden Phenwick, was her rescuer.

But Jeremy was overcome by a strange spell of debauchery and dissipation, and eccentric, headstrong Hayden Phenwick beckoned to him darkly from the shadows.

The shattering upheavel of the San Francisco earthquake sealed Olga's fate forever - as a Phenwick woman. Yet one more ordeal was to follow, a test of love and courage more final and more terrifying than all that had gone before....