Joy Jordan-Lake
3 SeriesJoy Jordan-Lake is a best-selling author recognized for her novels "Under a Gilded Moon" and "A Tangled Mercy." She won the 2009 Christy Award for Best First Novel for "Blue Hole Back Home."
In "A Tangled Mercy" by Joy Jordan-Lake, a struggling graduate student leaves Harvard after her mother's death and travels to South Carolina to unravel her family's past and salvage her academic career. Her research focuses on a failed slave revolt in 1822, driven by her mother's obsession with Charleston's history. A devastating massacre at a historic church disrupts her plans, leading her to discover a previously unknown family in the town. As the community unites in the aftermath, she gains new insights into her family's history and her own future.
