Thurston House is the most lavish mansion that

the richest man in California could build in the

1880s... the largest house that San Francisco s

exclusive Nob Hill has ever seen.., and a living

palace of love built for one woman: Camille.

Enchanting, raven-haired and fiery, she is the

all-consuming passion that Jeremiah Thurston

has found in the autumn of his life. When she

leaves him, bored by his love for his mines,

by his endless hours of hard work, Thurston

House becomes an empty monument to lost

hopes and vanished dreams--lifeless but for one

small person.

Sabrina, child of that love, grows up believing

her mother is dead. Her only legacy from

Camille is the legendary beauty; in all other

ways, Sabrina is her father s image: willful, head-

strong and loyal to his passion for the land and

his work. Suddenly, at 18, her life changed with

his death, she makes the fateful decision to rule

Thurston Mines.

Against her, waiting for any sign of weakness,

is a powerful enemy: John Harte, the man who

hoped to take her father s place, a man who