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Born of Gilded Mountains by Amanda Dykes

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Also by Amanda Dykes:

Born of Gilded Mountains, June 2024
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All the Lost Places, December 2022
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Yours Is the Night, August 2021
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Set the Stars Alight, June 2020
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Love at Last, August 2019
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Whose Waves These Are, May 2019
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Up from the Sea, April 2019
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BORN OF GILDED MOUNTAINS
By: Amanda Dykes

Historical Fiction Small Mountain-Town Women's Friendship Novel Set in the 1940s

Bethany House Publishers
June 2024
On Sale: June 18, 2024
416 pages
ISBN: 0764239511
EAN: 9780764239519
Kindle: B0CTKPM86H
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Christian Historical

A lost treasure. A riddled quest. The healing power of friendship.

Legends are tucked into every fold of the Colorado mountains surrounding the quaint town of Mercy Peak, where residents are the stuff of tall tales, the peaks are taller still, and a lost treasure has etched mystery into the very terrain.

In 1948, when outsider Mercy Windsor arrives after a scandal shatters her gilded world as Hollywood's beloved leading lady, she is determined to forge a new life in obscurity in this time-forgotten Colorado haven. She purchases Wildwood, an abandoned estate with a haunting history, and begins to restore it to its former glory.

But as she does, her every move tugs at the threads of the mountain's lore, unearthing what became of her long-lost pen pal Rusty Bright, and the whereabouts of the infamous Galloping Goose Railcar No. 8, which vanished years ago--along with the mailbag it carried, whose contents could change the course of countless lives. Not to mention the fabled treasure that--if found--could right so many wrongs.

Among the towering mountains that stand as silent witnesses, the ghosts of the past entangle with the courage of the present to find a place where healing, friendship, and hope can abide amid a world forever changed.