As elegant as the Sacramento residence she operates, Isabelle Labrie
keeps her past concealed, like the treasure she hides under the Golden
Hotel. It's 1853, the heyday of the California Gold Rush. Isabelle is
full of hope, staking her claim on the city's refined clientele and her
future on a sweetheart's promise to marry her when he returns from the
gold fields. Then, unexpected guests--fugitive slaves seeking safe
passage to the North--force her to confront her past and reconsider her
path.
While Isabelle learns to trust God's provisions, a law student in
Virginia must confront his father's cruelty and rescue a young slave
from his family's tobacco plantation. As the two escape to freedom, and
Isabelle risks everything to harbor runaway slaves, the past and present
are set on an inevitable collision course--one that reveals hidden
treasures of the heart.