Pearl

The year is 1923. The Santa Rita has hit the pay and Miss Pearl's Parlor is open for business!Pearl is about oil, sexy cowboys and friendly ladies who work in an upscale brothel in West Texas. Thirteen women work at Pearl's Parlor. These are their stories. The historical facts are true and the girls' stories are real. Wait until you read about Suzy Poontang!The year is 1898. After the promise of marriage, Ian McDonald convinces Victoria Pearl to give up her virginity and then leaves when he learns she is pregnant. After a devastating miscarriage, ashamed and discouraged with men, Victoria goes to Chicago to be a librarian. One glorious autumn day, she meets two sisters who recruit the enchanting Victoria Pearl to work at their exclusive Everleigh Club, an upscale brothel in the Levee District of Chicago. On opening night, February 2, 1900, Victoria meets and falls in love with Robert McKnight, a rancher from Texas. Four years later, Robert asks Victoria to be his bride. Fifteen years later tragedy happens and Mozella, a friend and former housekeeper at the Everleigh Club, comes to comfort Victoria. Together they open Miss Pearl's Parlor and invest in the Santa Rita oil well. The book is written in three parts. Part one is Victoria's story, part two tells the stories of ten girls who come to work at Pearl's Parlor and part three tells a love story between Emma Grace, a virgin and Tommy Lee, whose friends bring him to Miss Pearl's for his first time with a woman.