Bay Lands
A Novel
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Pub Date Feb 23 2027 | Archive Date Dec 31 2026
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Description
San Francisco Peninsula, 1874: Old California collides with the Industrial Age when twenty-year-old Mexican Irish mestiza Marisol Griffin inherits a failing rancho after the death of her grandmother, a legendary healer. Overnight, Mari is thrust into unfamiliar roles: midwife, ranch boss, and defender of her family lands from greedy, powerful men. To save her rancho, she forms an unlikely alliance of women—including an elite socialite and an escaped Chinese slave—and takes on the robber barons transforming San Francisco into a Gilded Age empire. Their fight draws them into the dangerous underbelly of the city, where financial fraud, trade in opium and slaves, and unchecked ambition threaten everything they love.
Bay Lands brings to life historically real, gritty heroes and fabulously wealthy financial titans locked in an epic power struggle. Inspired by Juana Briones, Leland Stanford, William Ralston, and Ah Toy, among others, Bay Lands thrusts readers into the maelstrom of immigration pressures, new technologies, and unbridled greed that changed lives and legacies forever in the late 1800s. Combining page-turning adventure with literary depth, Bay Lands is a sweeping story of women, land, and resistance at the birth of modern California.
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Advance Praise
“…a historical tour de force.”—ELIZABETH COBBS, New York Times best-selling author of The Hamilton Affair
“Brown delivers this novel at the exact right historical moment: Readers are likely eager to sink their teeth into a story that features industrious, ahead-of-their-time women who manage to stand up to patriarchal profit. A historical saga rich in setting and character with a knowing nod to the trials facing today’s readers.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS
“…brings the 1870s roaring to life…captivating…A truly impressive achievement.”—JACQUELINE FRIEDLAND, USA Today best-selling author of Counting Backwards and Breathing Under Water
"...puts human drama at the center of the processes that turned the bucolic Bay Area into the industrial urban landscape it became."—CHRIS CARLSSON, author Hidden San Francisco
“Bay Lands is a marvelous window into this young [Californio] woman’s journey and provides the reader with a much deeper understanding of the issues that families such as Marisol’s had to confront.”—ROSE MARIE BEEBE, Professor Emerita of Spanish Literature, Univ. of Santa Clara
“Epic, ambitious, and touchingly human...”—GINNY KUBITZ MOYER, author of The World at Home and A Golden Life
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9798896364320 |
| PRICE | $18.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 384 |