DARK LEGACY The Black Pearls. Bethany Stuart had made the long and perilous journey from Victorian England to gold-crazed California to claim her family legacy. Behind her lay heartbreak - and ahead of her an unknown fate in a place of lawless men and unchecked passions. In the company of two other women, each shadowed by a grim danger...in the hands of two men, both of whom promised love and threatened betrayal...in a twisting labyrinth of abduction and assassination, temptation and terror...Bethany learned that the Black Pearls of her desire could turn from a blessing to a curse - and that she, like her sisters before her, could become a slave to their satanic spell....