{"product_id":"by-the-light-of-the-blake-gunnels-9798998957819","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","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2025 WINNER -- International Firebird Book Award for Southern Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe didn't come to be found. She came to disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFleeing to the salt-kissed shores of Saint Simons Island in 1873, Jesse Whitmore arrives with her two children, a single carpetbag, and a past she cannot outrun. All she wants is invisibility--a weathered cottage beneath Spanish moss where no one asks questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the island has its own plans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Jesse is offered the keeper's position at BluffLight--a lighthouse rising stone by stone on the eastern bluff--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 her more clearly than anyone should, and a web of smugglers, old grievances, and long shadows that reach all the way back to Richmond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer husband is still alive. He is still looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the haunting beauty of Reconstruction-era coastal Georgia, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBy the Light of the Bluff\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a richly atmospheric Southern novel of sanctuary, resilience, and hard-won belonging. From the tidal marshes to the lantern room of a rising lighthouse, every page carries the weight of authentic history and the scent of salt and pine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Eugenia Price, Lisa Wingate, and Mary Alice Monroe.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Blake Gunnels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798998957819\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blufflight Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Blake Gunnels","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440718721279,"sku":"9798998957819","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_66e00ad5-c36b-457a-a66e-bde720467c44.jpg?v=1777184348","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/by-the-light-of-the-blake-gunnels-9798998957819","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}