A Woman of San Francisco — Lynn Erickson

The time is the 1890s...
Annette Tofler is a woman born to succeed, striving to find love, happiness and recognition in the city that inspires her -- San Francisco -- a world of riches, squalor, passionate love and vicious crime. In her love for the great impressionist painter Rolf Karman, she would find the realization of all her sensuous desires. But terror awaits her, as the underworld condemns her to the clutches of an unspeakably cruel man...