A Splendid Ruin by Megan Chance - 4 Stars

 May Kimble lives a penniless and lonely life in New York after her mother dies. But shortly after her mother's death, she is summoned to San Francisco to live with an aunt that she didn't know she had. The family is wealthy and May will be taken care of and taken in as one of their own.
But after arriving at her aunt's house, things start to become odd to May. Her aunt stays in a laudanum stupor, the Chinese maid hints that May is in some kind of trouble, and her cousin is often disappearing in the middle of the night.
But on an early morning in April, San Francisco comes tumbling down. May emerges from the smoldering ruins on a mission to find out the truth and claim what is rightfully hers.

Megan Chance is my favorite historical author, so I was excited to run across a newer book of hers. The first 2/3 of this book had me turning pages like crazy, but the ending wasn't what I was expecting. I was expecting a shocking twist of some sort, but never got it. But over all it was a really good book.