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This novel is part two of the love story started in my first novel, Silver Currents of Change. In Gold, Fire & Refinement, the second part of the journey, Journalist Zarah Brion must prove to herself and others that love is stronger than hate. But is she right? Can love conquer all? 

Everything in Zarah's life seems to be falling into the right places. The young, successful magazine editor and journalist who, despite her looks, believes she's the blackest black chick anyone could ever meet-is engaged to Harvey Evan Wilson, a white man who happens to be the richest man in Mississippi. The state's first multi-billionaire, Harvey owns the publishing company where Zarah's publishing and journalistic skills lit her meteoric rise to becoming one of his most productive, most treasured employees. 

Just months before their wedding, her fiancé's maternal grandmother, a woman vehemently opposed to her grandson marrying a black woman, decides to take matters into her own hands. Bettina Beauregard McNeese works hard and fiercely to end Zarah and Harvey's relationship, to protect her family's bloodline and their fortune.

Amidst Wilson family drama, Zarah has her hands full covering what could prove to be the biggest news story of the decade-the unearthing of the long-buried truth about what happened to part of a shipment of Confederate gold bars that have been missing since the Civil War. With her story at center stage in the public spotlight, Zarah becomes the target of people intent on seeing her romance go up in flames.

Gold, Fire & Refinement pits a smart and beautiful young woman against a mix of struggles, including family vs. family, past vs. present, and desires of faith vs. desires of the flesh. As forces collide, Zarah is left with difficult but inevitable choices. Will the love between her and her fiancé prove to be stronger than the intentions of those set on destroying it? Or will the deliberate and malevolent actions of others finally tear them apart?
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