The Sutter Creek Chronicles: A Love Story

The Sutter Creek Chronicles: A Love Story

A New Orleans psychic and a good day in the stock market lead computer whiz Julia Mooney to the little town of Sutter Creek, where, in a fog of compulsion, she buys an old house she doesn't need, for reasons she doesn't understand. The quaint community, with its Duck Races and rodeo, its haunting Memorial Day services, its Italian parade and eccentric expatriates from metropolitan life, gradually draws Julia ever more tightly into life in Sutter Creek-past and present. Is it chance-or destiny-that leads to the discovery of what lies mysteriously hidden within the old house? Is coincidence and intuition but a juxtaposition of things not seen, nor understood, but inevitable-like love that, despite time and circumstance, will not be denied? JoAnn Levy is the prize-winning author of four critically acclaimed books about the California Gold Rush. The San Francisco Chronicle praised her now-classic - They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush - as "one of the best and most comprehensive accounts of gold rush life to date." Her public speaking events include the National Archives in Washington, D.C., the Society of California Pioneers' annual Albert Shumate Lecture, and Villa Montalvo's Literary Arts Series. She has been featured in several TV documentaries on PBS, A&E, and The History Channel.