All That Glimmers

Description for ALL THAT GLIMMERS by Marlen Chase:

California gold is on Sofia Parker's mind.  She has begun research on the tenth block in the heirloom quilt bequeathed to her by her grandmother along with an old family journal.  Her inquiry takes her back to the gold rush of 1849 and a young woman, Adelia Long.

Adelia and her brother, Quinton leave their native Iowa behind, selling their meager property and the belongings and gambling it all in a desperate attempt to find riches in the streams and hills of the Golden State.  Along the way, they face the perils of the pioneer trail, traversing rivers, canyons, and mountains.  But it is the human lust for gold that brings them to the brink of disaster.

Adelia is tracking a dangerous thief who is brazenly stealing the priceless nuggets and dust the forty-niners are scratching from the ground.  Will she be able to smoke out the crook before the whole affair turns deadly?

This is #10 in Annie's Secrets Of The Quilts Series.