Under a Desert Moon is the debut novel by Korie Beth Brown.

When Angela Landon accepts a position as a live-in nanny in the remote Eastern Sierras, she’s hoping for a fresh start. What she finds is a dangerous game of love and survival. Her employer, astronomer Kirk Andersson,is struggling to balance his research with raising his niece Dahlia, whose father has gone to jail. With danger closing in, the two must risk everything to protect the teenager they’ve come to love.