Publisher's Synopsis
Amelia Penrose and her twin brother James were abandoned as babies in a trunk outside a Liverpool orphanage, where they were raised by the matron, Elizabeth. When she was eighteen, Amelia married American sailor Miles Carter and they moved to Seattle, before setting off to the Klondike where they hoped to make their fortune. As all the gold claims had been taken, Amelia bought a boarding-house, but Miles lost it to local entrepreneur George Dickinson in a poker game. After Miles's death, George asked Amelia to be his business partner - then George was shot in front of the hotel and Amelia was arrested...
