Beneath a Radiant Moon

By P L Jonas

A woman's life shaped by history, not choice.

Hungary, 1907

Leading up to the First World War, in a southern Hungarian village, Mira, a Slovak woman, waits on the far side of an ocean for a husband lost to immigration and necessity.

Bound by faith, motherhood, and obligation, Mira remains behind to care for her parents and protect her child as poverty, illness, and loneliness press in. Survival offers no clear path-only choices that test who she understands herself to be. When emotional and physical intimacy enters her life unexpectedly, they do not rescue her, but they reveal the fragile boundaries between endurance, longing, and moral

identity.

Separated from her marriage and constrained by a rigid social order, Mira moves through a world where women carry responsibility without power, grief without language, and love without certainty. In the quiet spaces between duty and desire, her life unfolds not through

transformation, but through persistence.

Beneath a Radiant Moon is a restrained, emotionally honest work of historical women's fiction that bears witness to how women endured history-through quiet strength, imperfect choices, and lives that mattered even when they went unseen.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1953100708
• ISBN13: 9781953100702
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Scarsdale Publishing, Ltd
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"