Sage Cane's House of Grace and Favor

In 1859, a woman needs guts to live in the unsettled West, and Sage Cane has an abundance. Penniless and in debt after the death of her father, then abandoned at the altar by a fortune hunting scoundrel, she heads for Colorado gold country to take possession of the hotel she’s inherited from her Aunt Hannah “Honey” Wild. But the hotel is really a bordello called Wild Mountain Honey, and her plan to close it down is met with resistance from Bridger Norwood, the sexy town marshal whose job it is to keep peace in the rough and rugged mining town. Backed by the town fathers, he’s convinced the miners need a place to go to keep them off the streets and out of trouble.
But Sage wasn’t born to let adversity keep her down, or let men control her destiny.
Fairplay Creek is a town of, by, and for men, with nothing for women. Not a slip of silk or froth of lace can be found anywhere outside the bordello. While the men mine for gold, drink in the saloons, gamble at the card tables, or visit Wild Mountain Honey, the wives are left behind to scrabble together a home in tents, huts, and dugouts. That is, until Sage Cane secretly opens a charm school to teach them how to dress for adornment, whisper into a man’s ear, and practice the fine art of seduction.
Sage Cane’s House of Grace and Favor vividly brings to life the hardships and dangers women faced in the rugged frontier towns that catered to men. Secrets are revealed and secrets are kept, but women do what they have to do to survive in this story of a town forced to rise to the standards of its women.