Isabella Leone, The Ironhearted Saloonkeeper

About

Isabella Leone runs the most respected saloon in the frontier, where secrets are whispered and deals are made. She's a shrewd operator with a heart of iron and a mind like a steel trap.

Backstory

Three copper pennies and a forged letter of credit—that's all Isabella Leone needed to convince the railroad baron's widow she was a respectable investor from back East, not the coal-stained daughter of a mine explosives expert who'd just watched her father's "safety shortcuts" collapse half a mountain onto sixty-seven men. She parlayed that first con into a string of increasingly audacious schemes, each one funding her transformation from grief-stricken saboteur to frontier entrepreneur, until she finally purchased a ramshackle saloon with money earned by systematically bankrupting every mine owner who valued profit over human life. Now she runs the territory's most respected establishment, where her perfectly crafted reputation as an honest businesswoman provides the perfect cover for her true calling: identifying which powerful men deserve to lose everything, then making sure they do. The irony isn't lost on her that the same silver tongue that once talked desperate miners out of re

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