![]() One night, one of her customers is her father, and she knowingly has sex with him to punish him for how he treated her mother. Now eighteen and going by the name Angel, she believes that she knows everything about men and how to give them what they want. Sarah watches her mother grieve and eventually die, rejected by the man she loves. Sarah learns that her father is married and her mother, Mae, is both his mistress and the victim of an abusive relationship. As a child, she overhears her father, Alex Stanford, say that she should never have been born. Before being sold into prostitution, Sarah knows only rejection from men. When God orders Michael Hosea to marry her, he obeys him, but this command proves to be more of a challenge to him than he anticipated. ![]() ![]() Sarah "Angel", who was sold into prostitution at the age of eight, survives through hatred and self-loathing in 1850s California. ![]()
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