in English, so her novel has more than its share of English-major in-jokes - from a mule named Malvolio to references to Edith Wharton's novel 'The House of Mirth.' The author, however, never lets her scholarship get in the way of a good yarn. Joy Jordan-Lake Under a Gilded Moon: A Novel Kindle Edition by Joy Jordan-Lake (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 12,667 ratings Kindle Edition 0.00 This title and over 1 million more are available with Kindle Unlimited 3.29 to buy Audiobook 0.

Read more ©2020 by Joy Jordan-Lake (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. In a few years, Grant would write 'The Passing of the Great Race,' a treatise on white supremacy and eugenics that Adolf Hitler would describe as his 'bible.' (Not surprisingly, Grant proves to be a decidedly unpleasant person.) As Kerry finds herself caught in a war between wealth and poverty, innocence and corruption, she must navigate not only her own pride and desperation to survive but also the temptations of fortune and the men who control it.

Among her real-life characters visiting Biltmore is Madison Grant, the well-to-do naturalist. reminds readers of the wave of lynchings going on in the South at this time. Jordan-Lake - whose novel 'A Tangled Mercy' involved the 2015 church shootings in Charleston, S.C. She knows the territory and packs in wads of history and local color.įor a romance, moreover, 'Under a Gilded Moon' proves decidedly woke. A Nashville-based writer, Jordan-Lake spent many summers in the Asheville area.

Under a Gilded Moon by Joy Jordan-Lake