{"product_id":"2940046483031","title":"The Mason List","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"An epic love. An epic hate. An epic story that would last a lifetime.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, 8:15 p.m.\u003cbr\u003eI hurt. I hurt so deeply, I felt the pain searing in my bones and jabbing like a hot poker into my heart. I knew nothing would make it better as the memories pulled from the crevices of my mind, detailing the bad and the ugly, filling my thoughts with regret as I slipped into the darkness. . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I was eight, my mother was dying of cancer, my father lost his job, and the bank kicked us out of our house. I was forced to move to the strange town of Arlis, Texas where my father and I slept in our car in the hospital parking lot. Desperate and hopeless, we lived on fumes of our former life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen one night, everything changed forever. A knock on the car window brought a family into my life that I only wanted to shut out. I hated charity and I hated the Masons. Well, except one. He made it impossible to hate him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJess Mason had the biggest blue eyes and ornery smile of any boy I had ever seen. He was a ray of sunshine in my dark world. A boy full of adventure, dragging me across the meadow of Sprayberry Ranch; a beautiful Texas paradise full of horses and tree houses that got us into more trouble than anyone ever imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJess was my everything as a kid until we grew up and the rules changed. Instead of living happily ever after with a boy full of love. . . I destroyed it.\u003cbr\u003e- Alex Tanner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Note: The Mason List is a coming-of-age story that follows the life of Alex Tanner from the age of six to twenty-six. The novel crosses the genres of Young Adult and New Adult. It does contain some language and mild adult situations. The Mason List is a standalone, 118,940 word, full-length novel.\u003cbr\u003e(A grammatical update fix was loaded 2-23-15)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2015 Goodreads Choice Award Semi-Finalist: Best Debut Author for The Mason List\u003cbr\u003eTop 5 Books of 2015 - Aestas Book Blog | #2 Book of 2015 – Romance Rewind\u003cbr\u003eBest of 2015 List – BCS Reviews | Top 13 of 2015 – Shh Mom’s Reading\u003cbr\u003eTop 10 of 2015 – That Book Life | Top Reads of 2015 List – Everlasting Reads\u003cbr\u003eTop Books of 2015 List – Night Reads | Top 5 Books of 2015 – Kaitlan Reads\u003cbr\u003eBest Standalone of 2015 – Brianna’s Bookish Confessions\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SD Hendrickson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067691876592,"sku":"2940046483031","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940046483031_p0.jpg?v=1763701378","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940046483031","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}