{"product_id":"2940153872544","title":"Brake Failure","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrake Failure is a romance with a kick-ass heroine and a hero in uniform. The story is set in one of the most fascinating periods of America's history: the months leading up to Y2K \"meltdown.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Is it too late to tell him you love him when you're looking down the barrel of his gun?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuby Mortimer-Smyth is an English debutante, destined for Ladies Day at Ascot and taking tea at The Savoy. She knows the etiquette for every occasion and her soufflés never collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is in control of her life, tightly in control. Until fate dumps her down in … Kansas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuby believes that life is like a car; self-control keeps it on the road, passion sends it into a ditch. What she doesn't know is, she's on a collision course with Sheriff Hank Gephart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheriff Hank Gephart can judge a person. Miss Mortimer-Smyth might talk like the Duchess of England but just under the surface there's something bubbling, ready to explode. She's reckless, and she's heading for brake failure. And he's not thinking about her car.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the Millennium approaching, Ruby gets caught up in the Y2K hysteria. She joins a group of Survivalists, who give her a gun and advise her to stockpile basic essentials, such as gasoline and water-purifying tablets. So she bulk-buys Perrier, Gentleman's Relish and macaroons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuby, far from home, is making Unsuitable Friends and \"finding herself\" for the first time. She falls in with a gang of Hells Angels and falls foul of the law. At every turn, she comes up hard against Sheriff Hank Gephart whose blue eyes seem to look deep into her soul. She desperately wants him but knows she can never have him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfused and angry at the emotions he arouses in her, she bursts from her emotional straightjacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the clock strikes midnight of the new Millennium, she's on a freight train with three million dollars, a bottle of Wild Turkey and a smoking gun.\u003cbr\u003eWhat happened to Miss Prim-and-Proper? And why did she shoot Mr Right?\u003cbr\u003e______\u003cbr\u003eNote: Alison Brodie wrote this story from first-hand experience. She lived in Kansas during this time and was stunned by the hysteria, unnerved that the US government was spending $150 billion preparing for Armageddon. As Lionel Shriver says in her novel, We Have to Talk About Kevin: \"1999, a year widely mooted beforehand as the end of the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alison Brodie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300533813488,"sku":"2940153872544","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940153872544_p0.jpg?v=1764100287","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940153872544","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}