If This Be Forgetting

On the eve of her wedding to Clay Carpenter MaryAnn Poole's world collapses when she is told That boy you're fixin' t'marry could be your half-brother. Fearing she might be pregnant she leaves her parents' mansion to seek anonymity in Sacramento's harsh Riverfront District. She obtains work in a dismal mercantile on Front Street. The year is 1901 when women living alone are looked upon with suspicion.