The Golden Mountain — Annalise Sun

AT THE EDGE OF THE FRONTIER, AT THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA, SEATTLE WAS A CITY BUILT ON VISION AND DESIRE...

CASS THORNTON: She was a photographer who inherited her father's dream--and a legacy of danger. Now she was risking everything to rescue her new-found half sister from the shocking degradation of a Chinatown brothel. But she could not free her own heart from the sensual thrall of two powerful men...

KING DURAN: His mistress was gold--the tears of the sun that beckoned him. He hungered for Cass as for no other, but the call of untamed places was a tyranny in his blood...

JARED DURAN: His coiled, elemental power had forged a Pacific Coast fortune. Now he must challenge the one adversary who stood in his way. Yet his need for his brother's woman could destroy them all...

TEA ROSE: Cass's half sister, she was a child in years only. Exquisitely perfect, innocence was the only luxury she would ever know...the ancient Chinese arts of pleasure, her only weapons in the battle to survive...

From Seattle's teeming streets to the squalor and splendor of the Klondike gold fields, they joined in a desperate gamble of ambition and betrayal. The prize: the triumphant, many-faceted mystery of love fought for and won for all time...