The release date for the English version of 'Under a Gilded Moon' by
Joy Jordan-Lake is Dec 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
An intriguing tale of secrets, a turbulent war of ideas, and murder as classes clash in the shadow of Biltmore House comes from the popular author of A Tangled Mercy.
The Vanderbilts, American "royalty," are building the opulent house Biltmore House, which is nearing completion in North Carolina. The greatest representation of privilege in the nation, it represents the goals of its owner and the dreams of a girl who lives in its shadow and is equally as driven.
When Kerry MacGregor's family duties force her to return to the stunning Appalachians after two years of college in New York City, her future is completely upended. No matter how near it comes, she is determined to keep her distance from the luxury she witnesses rising in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The land owned by her family is one of the final parts needed to finish the Biltmore Estate. But as more outsiders—a Sicilian fugitive, a reporter pursuing a ground-breaking story, a debutante marred by scandal, and a conservationist willing to risk everything to inflame local animosity—arrive on the scene, one by one, something more potent than an ambitious Vanderbilt heir could alter Kerry's destiny.
Kerry has to overcome not only her own pride and desperation to survive, but also the attractions of riches and the men who govern it, as she finds herself enmeshed in a conflict between wealth and poverty, innocence and corruption.