{"product_id":"2940154428276","title":"Doomsday Hand: Book 5 of the Peacetaker Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eFive years ago, Dr. Stella Hunter wrote a controversial book about the ancients who believed that once in a Blue Moon a child with Peacetaker powers is born. Such child, when grown to maturity, can seed murderous madness in people's minds by merely walking among them. A simple amulet activates the Peacetaker’s powers. Stella’s book was meant for the academic world. It brought her not only unwanted notoriety, and a young boy she subsequently adopted, but a new partner into her life; someone who would be the least likely companion for an academic obsessed with ancient myths and legends. Someone who’d never think that just by measuring his hand against a palm imprint on a piece of paper had the potential to doom not only him but humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLess than three months into Stella’s one year guest professorship in London, her husband, the retired FBI consultant, Timothy Carter, runs into an old friend while catching a taxi. It’s raining and both parties are late for their respective appointments. They make a lunch date for the next day but that meeting never happens. Mere hours after meeting his friend Gregory Semple, Carter discovers he’d been murdered at the British Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few days later Carter receives a package with a mysterious black-hand-imprinted parchment, addressed to him, from his now-deceased friend. Impulsively and thinking it a joke,Carter measures his own palm against the black imprint and suddenly, unknown to him, a clock somewhere started ticking a countdown to doomsday. As Carter attempts to figure out the importance of the strange parchment, he is thrust into a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction mess involving a billionaire’s child bride and European supermodel, a Scotland Yard Inspector, an eccentric academic, various thugs and his deceased friend’s adopted child. From the streets of London to the coast of Spain, Carter and Stella must find a way to abolish a ‘curse-disguised-as-a-gift’ that no one believed existed – until now. This time, it’s Carter’s life that is on the line because, as Stella puts it to him succinctly, 99% of humanity on Earth would kill to possess that which Carter now has—as a result of the curse and his impulsive nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edita A. Petrick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300536828144,"sku":"2940154428276","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940154428276_p0.jpg?v=1764067895","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940154428276","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}