Publisher: Lion Heart

Publication Date: May 20, 2025

Length: 370 pages

I received an early release of this book from the author as part of her “street team” to spread the word about the book before publication.

This is the second book in Rebecca Rosenberg’s Gold Digger series. Rose Marie Echo Silver Dollar Tabor is the daughter of Baby Doe and Horace Tabor. Horace Tabor was known as Colorado’s Silver King. Before the collapse of the silver market, he was one of the wealthiest men in Colorado. His affair and subsequent marriage to Baby Doe shocked society. During their heyday, the Tabors were philanthropists. After losing his fortune in the silver collapse, Horace Tabor died serving as Postmaster in Denver. Silver’s mother was left with two young daughters and one silver mine. Baby Doe moved her family back to their remaining mine, Matchless, in Leadville. The older daughter, Lily, left the family and moved to Wisconsin to live with her mother’s family. She hated the mining business and the family’s loss of wealth.

Baby Doe and Silver Dollar lived in Leadville in a small mining shack. Baby Doe’s sole focus was on regaining the societal notoriety they held until the silver collapse. Silver did not join her mother in the mining business. She fell in love with the stage. Dancing, singing, and acting were Silver’s forte. She wanted to become famous and make her mother proud of her. She believed that she could bring the Tabor name back into favor. Silver began her career performing an act in a traveling troupe. She believed her act was the first step in her rise to the top.

Silver was faced with challenges and opportunities in her pursuit of fame. She needed advice from someone she could trust. Her mother did not understand Silver’s goal, so headstrong Silver relied on herself. Silver’s fearlessness and talent drove her to recognition. She began working as a tiger handler. Terrified at first, she was determined to understand these gorgeous animals. Silver began being plagued by the voice inside her head during this time in her career. For years, she called the voice “Echo” as it seemed to be her conscience. This voice grew stronger, and now Echo was overwhelming Silver’s consciousness and seizing control of her body. Silver would wake up with a hangover when she had only gone to bed. What was Echo doing to her? Echo’s behavior became even more dramatic. Silver began seeing people on the street who seemed to recognize her, even though they were unfamiliar. Echo’s offstage antics harmed Silver’s reputation to the point of losing her job. After this, Silver took a job caring for the tigers purchased by a mob boss. She unwittingly became a kept woman.

Silver’s life was a true whirlwind with dizzying highs and heartbreaking lows. She was famous or infamous, but the notoriety failed to restore her family to the glory of their earlier days. Was Echo Silver’s conscious? Or something more sinister? Silver realizes she must find a way to rid herself of Echo’s influence. Does this attempt at freedom result in Silver’s demise?

I have been fortunate to read Rebecca Rosenberg’s two series: Champagne Widows and Gold Digger. Rosenberg breathes life into a member of the Tabor family shrouded in mystery and rumor. Her intuitive understanding of Silver Dollar portrays Silver’s behavior as more than high spirits. Rosenberg’s research elevates the Tabor story into a grand epic. All the elements of lust, love, triumph, success, and failure found in Silver Echoes enliven the intertwined story of the Tabors and silver mining. Was Silver Dollar a high-spirited young woman, or was the voice she heard a symptom of psychological issues? Rosenberg uses her mastery of storytelling to take a few lines of history, breathe life into it, and bestow upon us the turbulently fascinating life of Silver Dollar Tabor.

I highly recommend this book alone or with Gold Digger. This will appeal to people who enjoy historical fiction, strong women characters, and the roaring twenties.

My Rating:🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻/5