However, don't look for a lot of information about that here.
The book reads more like fiction than historical fiction. Like several of the newer DA offerings, it has a dramatic story that the author makes take precedence over anything historical.
Minnie Bonner's father loses the family tavern in a card game and the 14-year-old is forced to come with the new owners to San Francisco, working as their maid. But don't get attached to any of the rich family because it's not long after they reach San Francisco that the quake hits. Boom, they're all gone. The daughter had stolen Minnie's suitcase and dressed in her maid's clothing, about to run off with her boyfriend. Minnie, without her suitcase, was wearing one of the daughter's many nightgowns, so when she's found, the family lawyer, who's never met the daughter, assumes that Minnie is her.
Minnie plays the role of Lily while she tries to work out the mysteries surrounding her. It turns out the rich father had hired the man who cheated Minnie's father at cards. The entire thing was orchestrated by them and Minnie finds proof of many crooked dealings in a ledger, which she buries along with a load of cash and a million dollars in bonds.
Despite the heavily dramatic story, the incidents take place over just a handful of days and Minnie does get her happy ending.
Read this one if you're satisfied with more drama than history. It's not a bad book. I just don't think it qualifies as historical.
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