Gold Rush

Gold made men greedy.
She made them afraid.

A dark twist on the legend of the leprechaun, Gold Rush is a grimdark historical romance set in the brutal heart of 1850s California.

Dashia Wolfe crossed a continent to marry a stranger...
and arrived in a Sierra Nevada mining camp already a widow.

Stranded with no money, no protection, and no way home, she's told her husband's claim is worthless. Starvation is coming fast.

Then she meets the blacksmith.

Jobe Dempcy is massive, watchful, and not quite human. He knows exactly where the gold is - the bend in the creek where light fractures the water. He'll tell her.

For a price.

Dashia takes the bargain.

Gold comes easily after that. Too easily. But survival in the mining camps isn't about luck - it's about power. Men torture Chinese workers for sport. Native girls are bought and sold in daylight. Violence is law, and mercy is weakness.

Dashia learns quickly.

Gold becomes capital. Capital becomes influence. Influence becomes something far more dangerous. As her fortune grows, so does her ruthlessness - and the camp begins to understand that the quiet widow they ignored has teeth.

But Jobe didn't make a deal with a helpless woman.

He made a deal with someone who could become his equal.

And when the camp decides she has grown too powerful to tolerate, Dashia and the monster she married will answer with fire.

A brutal frontier tale of greed, folklore, and a love story forged in blood - where fortune favors the vicious.