{"product_id":"blackthorn-paperback","title":"Blackthorn (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e★ Available now, direct from the author, ahead of the November 26 retail release.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback · 5 x 8 in · 361 pages · printed on demand and shipped direct to you.\u003c\/strong\u003e Also available as an \u003ca href=\"\/pt\/products\/blackthorn\"\u003eeBook\u003c\/a\u003e, or get all three paperbacks in the \u003ca href=\"\/pt\/products\/ask-me-again-paperback-set\"\u003eAsk Me Again Paperback Set\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeacon Hill, May 1921.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVivienne Morrow has traded a Kneeland Street sewing machine for a marble floor and a household of vampires who've had two hundred years to practice contempt. She was never going to be a pet. So she learns every fork, every glance, every tilt of the head, and begins to do it back, better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree miles south, Phelan guards the old lines under South Boston with a blackthorn in his hand and a still in his cellar. He cannot lie. He cannot leave. And he cannot stop lighting a lamp in his window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a rival nest comes hunting, the treaty that keeps the city's dead and its living apart begins to crack, and Viv has to choose what she is willing to own, and what she is willing to lose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProhibition. A crash. A war of manners. And a question she has promised never to ask twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTropes \u0026amp; content include:\u003c\/strong\u003e second chance at love · vampire court politics · the lamp in the window · forbidden love · Prohibition-era Boston · old Irish magic · slow burn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeries note:\u003c\/strong\u003e Book 2 of the Ask Me Again trilogy. Read \u003cem\u003ePiecework\u003c\/em\u003e first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBLACKTHORN is Book 2 in the Ask Me Again series, a slow-burn historical fantasy romance of Prohibition-era Boston. For readers of A Discovery of Witches and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"S.D. Maynard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46076983115845,"sku":"9798952511163","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/0269\/7285\/files\/blackthorn_22098158-d2a1-46a3-a540-ac90cf459acf.jpg?v=1792514137","url":"https:\/\/shop.sd-maynard.com\/pt\/products\/blackthorn-paperback","provider":"S.D. MAYNARD BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}