{"product_id":"2940156730834","title":"Tempting Skies","description":"The Final Chapter in Award-Winning Beyond the Wood Series. Four decades after the Civil War, former Kentucky slave Victoria Richman has passed away. Among her belongings, her bereft family discovers a narrative she's written recounting the summer of 1864 in Virginia and the Nation's Capital. Mrs. Richman's manuscript describes a defining year, full of fury, sorrow, dread, hate, hope and love in the lives that intersect hers: Betsy Richman Henderson tries to escape once again her demoralizing dance with a still-scheming Lucius Walthrope, even as war's devastation trudges southward toward her Shenandoah Valley homestead. William Richman, at last a legally free man, painfully struggles to scrape away slavery's emotional scars and remnant self-doubt. Amidst inner disarray and outer humiliation, he battles for his place in a new social order of liberty framed in 19th Century racism. Victoria herself struggles to find meaning in her new life. Thoughtful and intelligent, she resists a mundane life far from the war and its shifting purpose as she lives and chronicles the dramatic climax of the \"Beyond the Wood Series.\"","brand":"Vesta House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112029339888,"sku":"2940156730834","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940156730834_p0.jpg?v=1764122236","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940156730834","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}