Passion's Child (Falconer #1)

She was willful, wanton, and very beautiful...
What can you expect, people said. She was her mother's daughter.
Sweeping from 19th-century New Orleans to glamorous San Francisco to the California gold fields and Virginia during the Civil war, here is the spellbinding story of Carmella Hastings, whose passions always seemed to cause trouble.

Cavorting recklessly, marrying foolishly, obsessively trying to understand her mother's bawdy life, Carmella's hidden innocence attracts Miles Falconer, who's willing to protect her in spite of herself...

Spicy passion and grand excitement as a brazen young girl becomes a confident woman...