Persian Moon: Layla's Story (Moon Series Book 1)

PERSIAN MOON is a tale spanning generations of mothers and daughters, a story of expectations colliding with dreams. It tells the story of Layla Saleh caught between the disparate cultures of Iran before the collapse of the last monarch's reign and America on the brink of a cultural revolution.Layla, a bright young woman, becomes the first woman of her lineage to find herself immersed in temptation. Though she struggles to comply with the expectations of her culture, the demands of her heart take precedence and she eventually defies all she has been taught only to face the consequences of her choices.Layla's story is told against the backdrop of the splendor and opulence of the Peacock Throne and Iran's political turmoil as the monarch weds his vulnerable second and then third wife, only to be ultimately exiled.PERSIAN MOON is an ambitious debut novel, exquisitely researched, offering a strong narrative with well-crafted characters, crammed with rich, unexpected twists and turns and highlighting universal themes of human behavior.PERSIAN MOON is the first novel in the exciting Moon Trilogy, joined with MOON CHILD and MOONLIGHT.WHAT READERS OF PERSIAN MOON ARE SAYING"I'm an American-Iranian and have never been to Iran. In addition to being a fabulous story, the Tehran scenes in PERSIAN MOON gave me a sense of the city and the history of modern Tehran. Amazing plot, passionate, very real characters. Couldn't put the book down and can't wait to read more about these characters I've fallen so in love with.""A stunning victionaized account of a young Persian woman coming of age during the Shah's Westernization of Iran. PERSIAN MOON, the first of three books I found to be excellent in every way, is a suspenseful page turner about a woman victimized by her decision not to conform to the religious, cultural and family expectations that cloak female sexuality." Read more