san francisco (calif.)

Gia Santella has settled into domestic life with a vengeance. The days of drinking too much, driving too fast, and going home with an assortment of cute boys have come to a screeching halt. But then her world is upended when a little girl escaping a brutal life in Guatemala is thrust into her life. Gia finds herself fighting against her most ruthless enemy yet; a deadly and vicious force whose powerful reach extends across continents.

They are the forgotten girls. The lost ones with haunted eyes wandering the gritty streets of San Francisco. Gia Santella, long experienced in fighting her own demons, is drawn into a battle for the girl's very lives. The vigilante heiress soon discovers that much more than bad choices are to blame for the girls? circumstances.

Sydney Rye and Gia Santella, two fierce vigilantes devoted to justice, meet for the first time when they find themselves caught up in a deadly Silicon Valley subculture revolving around some of the most powerful men in the world. It doesn?t take long for them to realize that the elite group of men are playing a depraved and deadly game and nobody will dare to interfere. It?s left up to the two women to risk it all to stop the men and save more innocent lives.

Vigilante heiress Gia Santella has everything that money can buy. It?s what she can?t buy?love, companionship, friendship; that eludes her. When Gia is forced to take a luxury cruise, she sets aside her vigilante ways. As she enjoys exotic lands and foods, a new friendship gives her hope that she might be able to lead a normal life like everybody else. But like everything else in her life has done, her new friendship soon takes a deadly turn.

Unfortunately, the past isn't done with her yet. Under the sultry Mediterranean skies, Gia thinks that she?s finally escaped the dark cloud that has hovered over her most of her life. But she is wrong.

When a hate group infiltrates Gia's San Francisco neighborhood, a student journalist at U.C. Berkeley reporting on the group disappears. Gia's search for the missing student unravels dark secrets that threaten to destroy her beloved neighborhood. She is caught in a race against time to find the young journalist before it's too late. If she fails, more innocent people will die.

". . . a critical reexamination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the 1960s"--Back cover.

A retelling of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in which three people are trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park when Titania, in a fit of sadness over the end of her marriage, sets loose an ancient menace that threatens the mortal and faerie worlds alike.

"Victoria Blaisdell longs for independence and adventure, and she yearns to accompany her father as he sails west in search of real gold! But it is 1848, and Tory isn't even allowed to go to school, much less travel all the way from Rhode Island to California. Determined to take control of her own destiny, Tory stows away on the ship. Though San Francisco is frenzied and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory finds freedom and friendship there. Until one day, when Father is in the gold fields, her younger brother, Jacob, is kidnapped. And so Tory is spurred on a treacherous search for him in Rotten Row, a part of San Francisco Bay crowded with hundreds of abandoned ships"--OCLC.

"Newly homeless Jeanne Ann and wealthy Cal form a vital friendship as they both search for stability and community, finding it through love of books, art, and food"--Provided by publisher.