After losing their loved ones, Eula Seeley and “half- breed,” Jack Rivers, fight tragic odds to survive deceit and betrayal, greed and violence in the wild 1870’s, finding each other in the process. The action takes place in Raven’s Bend, a boomtown in Calaveras County*, where death in the mining camps, the brothels, and even the child-birthing bed challenge men and women, alike, to stay alive.