Award-win­n­ing author-jour­­nal­ist Roni Rob­bins has been a pub­lished writer for 36 years. A for­mer editor/​writer for Med­scape after serv­ing as asso­ciate edi­tor of the Atlanta Jew­ish Times, she has a sea­soned his­to­ry as a reporter for dai­ly and week­ly news­pa­pers and as a free­lancer for nation­al, region­al and online pub­li­ca­tions. Hands of Gold won the 2023 Inter­na­tion­al Book Awards and the 2023 Glob­al Book Awards. The nov­el was also a final­ist in the 2023 Read­ers’ Choice Book Awards and the 2022 Amer­i­can Fic­tion Awards.