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The crooked, the greedy, and those with a checkered past - each of them came up to Leadville with the same goal: Enter, get rich, get out. As 1879 pulls to an in depth, silver fever uses up hot in the Rocky Hill boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. Unfortunately for Joe Rose, an assayer of treasured metals, death stakes its state. Joe's body is available trampled into the muck behind Inez Stannert's saloon. Inez already has much more to deal with than pouring photographs of Taos Lightning. A female educated on the East Coastline, she's a past that doesn't carry close scrutiny, credited in part to her elopement with a playing man who has disappeared. Most of the townsfolk, including Inez's business partner, Abe Jackson, dismiss Joe's death as a major accident. Death, in the end, is not any stranger in Leadville. But Inez wonders why this adoring husband and daddy was transporting a brass token best for "one free screw" at the parlor house of Denver madam Mattie Silks. When Joe's widow Emma asks Inez to stay Joe's affairs, Inez reluctantly agrees and soon uncovers skewed assays, bogus greenbacks, and blackmail, leading her to assume that Joe was murdered. Was he wiped out over money or for simply personal motives? It's up to Inez to find out. Ann Parker, a knowledge writer by day, is the author of the Magic Rush historical enigma series, which Silver Lays was the winner of the Willa Cather Award for Historical Fiction and the Colorado Yellow metal Award for Best Enigma.
