Download or read book River Queen Rose written by Shirley Kennedy and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ramshackle River Queen Hotel is home to vagabonds, gamblers, and heathens-and now, to new widow Rose Peterson. The rundown Gold Rush establishment is the only thing her late husband, Emmet, left her. Despite its raucous saloon and ladies of the evening, Rose can see the hotel's potential. Her late husband's family claim that sheltered Rose isn't capable of running the Sacramento inn herself. But she is determined to make a new life for herself and her young daughter, even if it means flying