The Golden Spoon

"Eagle Bar, an outpost fabricated on dreams, gold, and greed. In this burgeoning boomtown, strangers become family, friends turn to enemies, and the fever pitch for gold permeates the air they breathe. Charlie and Cassie Vincent arrive to make their fortune feeding hungry miners at the Golden Spoon. Matthew Ramsey comes to prove greed has no hold on him as he gets sucked into building a gambling empire. And preying over it all like a black widow spider is Victoria de Vere, staking her claim on the ruined lives of those foolish enough to underestimate her insatiable hunger for wealth and power. Brotherhood and betrayal bleed into the California rivers, crushing the weak until only those willing to walk away survive. Experience the grit, greed, gristle, and glory of the pioneers who risked it all and forged an uncommon people and an unparalleled place called the Golden State."--Provided by publisher.