A Dangerous Business

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of A Thousand Acres : An amazing “mash-up of a Western, a serial-killer mystery and a feminist-inflected tale of life in a bordello” ( The Washington Post).   In 1850s Gold Rush California two young prostitutes, best friends Eliza and Jean, attempt to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West—a bewitching combination of beauty and danger—as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon