{"product_id":"2940148187899","title":"Lessons From the Shallow End","description":"A Summer Escape Novel--\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of the 'Sand Between the Toes' Series:\u003cbr\u003eFive parents who meet during daily swim lessons share laughs, joys and a secret that threatens to change their bond, and their lives, forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe truth--like\u003cbr\u003ethe foul weather rolling in the time to tell the truth has finally come. They\u003cbr\u003ewant the truth.  Amy is not willing to\u003cbr\u003ereveal that to them she tells herself, wishing they were all beneath the blue and\u003cbr\u003ewhite awning in her sacred corner of the pool--for swim lessons-- as the weather\u003cbr\u003emoves across the wide open late summer sky.Who are they to demand the truth from her?These people who she has met and befriended this summer, because they have accompanied\u003cbr\u003echildren who are taking swim lessons to the pool each day, do not have the\u003cbr\u003eright to demand the truth from her.  Do\u003cbr\u003ethey?  Standing surrounded by them now Amy\u003cbr\u003ewonders how she can avoid telling them the truth as she looks over to where her son, Chance,\u003cbr\u003eis.  She swore she would never tell a soul\u003cbr\u003ethe truth about her son.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Who are you?\" Lucy asks now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucy is not\u003cbr\u003eher real name. It is the name her second husband gave her after he removed\u003cbr\u003eeverything which belonged to her from her home, when they married on impulse\u003cbr\u003eafter meeting online last April.  Who are\u003cbr\u003eyou, Lucy?  Amy wonders this now.  When she first moved to this neighborhood Amy\u003cbr\u003eknew her as Anne.  Now she is Lucy.  Who is she to ask  anything?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e             \"Who is Chance?\" Angela asks,\u003cbr\u003eher European accent still strong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Amy glances\u003cbr\u003etoward her son again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e              \"Trust us, Amy!\" Colby, who they\u003cbr\u003ehave all swooned over a bit this summer, tells her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e              \"Trust you?\" Amy asks, giving a cool\u003cbr\u003elook toward Betsy then glancing at her son again\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy should she\u003cbr\u003etrust any of them with anything, let alone her son?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e               \"Speak up!\" Natasha says now, no\u003cbr\u003enonsense as usual.  \"What the hell is\u003cbr\u003egoing on, Amy?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmy stands\u003cbr\u003esurrounded by them, wondering if they deserve the truth-- if she has to give it\u003cbr\u003eto them.  She supposes she does, Amy realizes.  If anyone is owed the truth it is this group.  Amy's voice crawls up from somewhere deep now as\u003cbr\u003eshe begins to speak the thing she promised herself she would never say to a single\u003cbr\u003esoul.  As they stand waiting to hear it,\u003cbr\u003eall of their eyes on her, the weeks since Amy met these people back in June flows\u003cbr\u003ethrough her.  That day leading her to this moment of telling the truth--a truth that will change everything...","brand":"T. Patrick Mulroe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075303194864,"sku":"2940148187899","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148187899_p0.jpg?v=1763698701","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148187899","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}