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    Beneath a Golden Veil
    Beneath a Golden Veil
    Beneath a Golden Veil
    Audiobook8 hours

    Beneath a Golden Veil

    Written by Melanie Dobson

    Narrated by Carly Robins

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    As elegant as the Sacramento residence she operates, Isabelle Labrie keeps her past concealed, like the treasure she hides under the Golden Hotel. It’s 1853, the heyday of the California Gold Rush. Isabelle is full of hope, staking her claim on the city’s refined clientele and her future on a sweetheart’s promise to marry her when he returns from the gold fields. Then, unexpected guests—fugitive slaves seeking safe passage to the North—force her to confront her past and reconsider her path.

    While Isabelle learns to trust God’s provisions, a law student in Virginia must confront his father’s cruelty and rescue a young slave from his family’s tobacco plantation. As the two escape to freedom, and Isabelle risks everything to harbor runaway slaves, the past and present are set on an inevitable collision course—one that reveals hidden treasures of the heart.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 8, 2016
    ISBN9781531866358
    Beneath a Golden Veil
    Author

    Melanie Dobson

    Melanie Dobson is the award-winning author of sixteen historical romance, suspense, and time-slip novels including Chateau of Secrets and Shadows of Ladenbrooke Manor. Three of her novels have won Carol Awards, and Love Finds You in Liberty, Indiana won Best Novel of Indiana in 2010. She loves exploring old cemeteries and ghost towns, hiking in the mountains, and playing board games with her family. She lives with her husband and two daughters near Portland, Oregon.

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    • 4/5
      What a delightful read this novel was. Focusing on slavery, the dignity of people and the right to freedom, I found "Beneath a Gold Veil" hard to put down until I had reached the last page.
    • 4/5
      This is the first book I've read by Melanie Dobson and I really enjoyed it. I'm a big fan of antebellum historical fiction but this is the first I've read that takes place mostly in California. I had never really thought about the gold rush taking place less than a decade before the start of the civil war. The writing was compelling, the story was captivating, and I'm a sucker for happy endings.