Ancient Deception (Of Gold & Blood, #9)

She's a haunted runaway forced to hide from a brutal past. He's a charismatic businessman who despises deception. Can they overcome the lies that separate them and embrace a passion worth everything?

California, 1871: Sarah Wyndham has lived a double life since escaping her abusive family and a forced marriage. Fleeing to San Francisco, the gifted mathematician lives incognito as a mousey secretary, in constant terror of discovery.

Hawaiian sugar merchant Kaleo Manolo sees beyond the disguise however, and when Sarah's secrets put her in grave danger, the handsome super surfer steps in as her protector.

Traumatised by her brutal past, Sarah is ashamed to tell her story. And she knows her desperate attempt to maintain her secrets could cost Kaleo his life.

Burned by her off-handed dishonesty, Kaleo battles growing feelings for a woman whose silence raises alarm bells over her integrity.

He's convinced she is hiding something, but he's determined to keep her safe, even if it means standing against a powerful enemy

As they navigate a treacherous web of lies and revenge, will Sarah learn to trust him enough to confide her shame-filled story? Or will Kaleo's determination to do the right thing lead to him paying the ultimate price?

With time running out and their lives on the line, Sarah and Kaleo risk everything for a chance at freedom. But after Sarah's deception, will Kaleo still believe the truth of her heart?

Ancient Deception is the mesmerizing ninth book in the Of Gold & Blood historical mystery series. If you like brilliant heroines, principled heroes, and deadly games of cat and mouse, then you'll love Jenny Wheeler's captivating tale of secrets and sacrifice.

Buy Ancient Deception to unravel the web of lies today!

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Jenny Wheeler is convinced there is no better time than now to be a woman, but if she was faced with making a second choice it would be 1860's California ? the setting for her historical mystery series Of Gold & Blood.

Nearly twenty years after the 1849 Gold Rush brought thousands upon thousands of (mainly) men into California on the greatest adventure of their lives, the energy, the thirst for excitement remained, but the rough frontier had become a maritime colony; "urban, cosmopolitan, and resembling nothing else in the Far West," (Kevin Starr, Americans and the California Dream, 1850 ? 1915. Oxford University Press.) A place where women had the chance to pursue their dreams with more freedom than (arguably) anywhere else in the civilized world.

Jenny loves the stories that came to be spun from the region that was "the cutting edge of the American dream," (Kevin Starr again) and she's busily creating those stories with as much passion as those '49ers chased after gold nuggets!

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He left Hawaii to improve his prospects. He could be returning in a coffin…

San Francisco, 1870. Kaleo Manolo hopes to strengthen his ties to California. So the Hawaiian super-surfer and accomplished sugar merchant has come to town to meet his recently revealed father: a powerful Washington Senator and successful importer. But the handsome businessman's plans take a dangerous turn when he rescues a mysterious woman from an attack on the street… and becomes embroiled in a deadly family conflict.

Sarah Wyndham has lived a double life since she escaped her abusive family. But when Kaleo

foils their attempt to kidnap her back she insists on maintaining her secrets to protect him from their reprisals. Kaleo suspects she is concealing the truth, but despite her warnings that he could be killed, he vows to stand by her side in a potentially lethal showdown.

Will Sarah learn to trust him enough to confide her shame-filled story? Or will Kaleo's determination to do the right thing lead to him paying the ultimate price?

Ancient Deception is the mesmerizing ninth book in the Of Gold & Blood historical mystery series. If you like charismatic heroes, intricate revenge plots, and edge-of-your-seat twists, then you'll love Jenny Wheeler's plunge into a web of lies.