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When young Sara Jerome arrives in San Francisco, she is filled with anticipation: she has long loved Ritchie Temple, a man who resides in the city, and she believes her mystery‑shrouded father may have returned. At the same time, a chilling nightmare that has haunted her all her life becomes clearer and more terrifying in the setting of the 1906 earthquake. As Sara follows the clues beneath the tremors, she seeks answers to the night her father vanished, a stormy fate tied to the quake, and hopes that love and truth await her in the aftermath.
First publish date: 1956
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Phyllis A. Whitney
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