Chinatown

Chinatown Spicy Western Stories Book 2Los Angeles was booming, everywhere you drilled a hole in the ground, oil bubbled up. The new railroad lines were in a price war, bringing people all the way from Saint Louis for a dollar. Refrigerator cars were filled, shipping oranges and fresh vegetables back East, even in the dead of winter.It was a lawless town, even by standards of the 1880s: toughest city west of Santa Fe, and Chinatown was the worst. The Chinese came for the railroad work and settled there. They were considered third class people by the Angelos -- the whites from the Midwest and back East, below the Indians and the Mexicans, who had their own Spanish caste system from the old world.Jake jumped off the train from Sacramento looking for the city life and maybe a city girl. Once again he was looking for romance and a place to settle down, get married, and raise a son. Little did he know he was in Chinatown. In this Western romance Ms. Stephano takes you everywhere you want to go and a few places you shouldn't, all in one exciting year.