{"product_id":"2940016260891","title":"Calder","description":"Tales of the Shareem: Calder (Book 4) is a novel of 50,000 words, fourteen chapters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedic Katarina d'Arnal moves to the slums to work in a free clinic and ends up drawing the job of inoculating Shareem. The first Shareem who shows up is the Calder, a level three, muffled from head to foot, refusing to bare even an inch of skin. He's used to an elderly medic who jabs him and lets him go, not the pretty, young highborn woman who wants to do everything by the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCalder hides himself because, unlike the rest of the Shareem—the handsome, arrogant, a-holes—Calder is scarred all over, the result of a plasma fire years ago. He's learned that women crave to be with him, as hideous as he is, and he's created a world where they can indulge in their darkest fantasies with the Beast. He give them an exotic experience with a capital E.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut this woman, Katarina, looks at Calder the man, and wants to know all about him. Calder decides to show her what he is when she's tricked into visiting his lair—but Katarina keeps insisting on touching his burned face with her gentle fingers, trying to find the man behind the tormented Beast. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCalder knows if he lets her in to what he truly is, it will be the end of him . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote: This novel is for readers over the age of eighteen. Includes many scorching scenes, language, and some brief mfm.","brand":"Ashley Gardner \/ Jennifer Ashley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071261294832,"sku":"2940016260891","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016260891_p0.jpg?v=1763948195","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016260891","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}