"When I'm dead and buried . . . you get the hell out of here . . .
Make a life somewhere else . . . a life that I can't even imagine."
Jo Salter, a woman from the North Carolina mountains, sets about
constructing a new life for herself in Asheville in the wake of her
mother's death. A life that no one--including her mother--could have
imagined.
Jo has a gift. She is a mathematical prodigy--a woman who sees and
thinks in numbers. She secures a job as a teller at Central Bank &
Trust, where she recreates herself as a modern woman and rises through
the professional ranks. While working at the bank, Jo becomes fascinated
by Levi Arrowood, the dark and mysterious manager of the Sky Club, an
infamous speakeasy and jazz club on the mountainside above town.
When the Great Depression brings Central Bank & Trust down in a seismic
crash, Jo is forced to find a new home and job. She finds both at the
Sky Club, where she strikes a partnership with the alluring Arrowood as
she is drawn deeper into a glamorous and precarious life of bootlegging,
jazz, and love.
The Sky Club is the story of money, greed, and life after the crash
from the eyes of one remarkable woman as she creates her own imagined
life.
