Based on the true events & actual people who lived in mid-19th century, Pale Truth is a riveting, fast-paced story about a mysterious Southern Woman named Mary Ellen who overcomes tremendous odds in building a powerful financial empire in the West. Readers will find Pale Truth is historically robust--accurately portraying the times, cities & peoples who made up America. Traveling with Mary Ellen from Georgia, to the Midwest, through Panama & eventually ot California, readers find the novel engaging & loaded with powerful figures like Colbraith O'Brien, a shrewd Irishman from Tammany whose destiny is intricately linked to Mary Ellen's. Praised by Publishers Weekly as "big, ambitious & well researched," Pale Truth is packed with 41 period illustrations, a timeline & extensive bibliography. Reviewed by notable publications such as ALA's Booklist & School Library Journal--it is not surprising that Pale Truth is ForeWord Magazines Book of the Year Award Winner in General Fiction.