{"product_id":"2940152410242","title":"Spiral","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpiral, a novel of magic realism and epic adventure in the ancient American Southwest.\u003cbr\u003eAt the end of a culture that built structures as big as the Roman Coliseum when medieval Europe was still in the Dark Ages, on a high desert landscape of brooding wind and dark storm clouds that never drop rain, the Elders threaten to sacrifice an infant boy to placate the sun dagger and thus end the drought.\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile young Willow waits by the dry, dusty Chaco riverbed for her lover. But when he finally comes, it is to say goodbye. Betrayed and desolate, Willow becomes an expert pot maker, turning for comfort to a gentle hunter of her own Coyote Clan, with whom she has a son. When the Elders kidnap him, Willow has a plan.\u003cbr\u003eAgainst the backdrop of the Anasazi Southwest, Spiral plunges the reader into a whole gripping, enchanted world spiraling in crisis.\u003cbr\u003eSpiral is a prequel to Margaret C. Murray's acclaimed 2008 novel, Sundagger.net (WriteWords Press, 2008).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Margaret C. Murray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180584386800,"sku":"2940152410242","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152410242_p0.jpg?v=1764020538","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152410242","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}