Tarnished Gold

Placer City, Wyoming, 1933 - Em Olson struggles to operate her beloved family hotel in a busted mining town after her father's abandonment and her mother's death. A new lodger, Finch, a handsome geologist searching for gold, brightens her lonely life. Her troubles resurge when Finch makes a horrific discovery of a mummified body and uncovers swindles embroiling the hotel and her father's gold mine. Without the deeds, Em could lose her hotel and the mine, leaving her homeless and with crushing debt. Stressed to the breaking point, to save her way of life she is forced to re-examine everything she had believed about her family in order to find the truth. While doing so, Em must decide her future while the man she has grown to love prepares to depart on his next assignment.