‘Exactly the novel we need right here, right now’TAYARI JONES’Astonishing’JODI PICOULT’Triumphant’ELLEA woman learns the astonishing truth of her family’s ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new novel from the bestselling and award-winning author ofTake My HandNikki Berry hasn’t seen her estranged grandmother Rita in years – until an unexpected phone call summons her to the hills of North Carolina. There, Nikki learns the astonishing truth of her family’s past: her formerly enslaved ancestor Luella was the queen of a now vanished American Kingdom.The Kingdom of the Happy Land sounds like a fairytale. But beneath its legend, family secrets lie buried deep in the hills . . .Now, Nikki must protect her family’s legacy before – like so much else – it is stolen away.