Days of Gold
Edilean • Book 2
by Jude Deveraux, Davina Porter
Why You'll Love This
A Highland escape, a stolen fortune, and two people with every reason not to trust each other — Deveraux makes the slow surrender feel inevitable.
- Great if you want: sweeping historical romance with family legacy and stubborn chemistry
- The experience: leisurely and warm — a fireside read, not a thriller pace
- The writing: Deveraux builds romantic tension through banter and withheld vulnerability
- Skip if: you expect fast plot momentum or gritty historical realism
About This Book
Set against the sweeping landscapes of colonial Scotland and early America, Days of Gold follows two people thrown together by desperation and danger, forced to rely on each other across an ocean and a world neither fully understands. The stakes are survival, but the real tension runs deeper — two wounded souls discovering that the life they each thought they wanted may not be the life they actually need. Jude Deveraux builds her story around that delicious friction between what characters resist and what they can't escape.
What sets this book apart as a reading experience is Deveraux's confident handling of dual settings and dual eras, weaving the rugged intimacy of the Scottish Highlands against the raw promise of colonial America without losing momentum. Her prose is warm without being soft, and her characters carry genuine complexity beneath the romantic surface. Fans of the Edilean series will recognize her gift for grounding sweeping historical drama in deeply personal, human-scale emotion — making the past feel immediate, lived-in, and surprisingly close.