{"product_id":"by-the-light-of-the-bluff-a-historical-fiction-novel-of-a-womans-courage-buried-secrets-and-finding-home-in-post-civil-war-georgia-paperback","title":"By the Light of the Bluff: A Historical Fiction Novel of a Woman's Courage, Buried Secrets, and Finding Home in Post-Civil War Georgia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBlake Gunnels\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner - 2025 International Firebird Book Award for Southern Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe didn't come to be found. She came to disappear.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFleeing the wreckage of her marriage in the aftermath of the Civil War, Jesse Whitmore arrives on Saint Simons Island in 1873 with two children, a carpetbag, and a secret she intends to keep. The island's tidal marshes and Spanish moss offer the kind of quiet that asks no questions - and Jesse needs quiet more than she needs anything else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut BluffLight is rising on the eastern bluff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Jesse is offered the keeper's position at the new lighthouse, she finds herself drawn into something larger than survival: a community fighting to bring light to dangerous waters, an engineer named Jonas Miller who sees through her carefully constructed silence, and a web of old grudges and smuggler's politics that reaches all the way back to Richmond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHer husband is looking for her. He has never stopped.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA living smell of mud and salt and things growing and dying all at once - \u003cb\u003eBy the Light of the Bluff\u003c\/b\u003e is Southern historical fiction at its most immersive, a novel where the lighthouse is never just a lighthouse, and the light is never just light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Delia Owens, Mary Alice Monroe, and Eugenia Price.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 26, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48261488935133,"sku":"9798998957819","price":30.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/a_bHEaM-6D9798998957819.webp?v=1785076886","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/by-the-light-of-the-bluff-a-historical-fiction-novel-of-a-womans-courage-buried-secrets-and-finding-home-in-post-civil-war-georgia-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}