In the summer of 1911, 12-year-old piano prodigy Elly Robin and her pal Jimmy McGann arrive in the Colorado gold mining town of Cripple Creek in search of Jimmy's sister, Liddie.
While they look for clues to Liddie's tragic disappearance, Elly lands a job playing at Crapper Jack's Saloon and Dance Hall. Elly helps rebuild a Model T Roadster, and discovers a mechanical aptitude on a par with her extraordinary musical abilities. And Jimmy loses his heart to Sara Grundy, a proud young girl forced by a desperate circumstance to become one of Crapper Jack's forty dancing whores. While playing detective, Elly learns how the murder of a score of miners seven years ago destroyed the miner's union. And when Sara turns out to hold the clue which could finally solve the murders--and implicate some of the most powerful men in the state--all of their lives are put in jeopardy...
Volume Two of P.D. Quaver's extraordinary multi-volume saga, THE ORDEALS OF ELLY ROBIN