{"product_id":"2940169322453","title":"Glorious: A Novel of the American West","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe've all got mistakes in our past we'd rather forget.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation, one that was honed by an impoverished childhood and life with an alcoholic father barely scraping by on the streets of Saint Louis in 1872. He's always had a knack for finding and capitalizing on the slightest opportunities, choosing the path of financial security over happiness or real friends. He eventually builds himself up from a Saint Louis street urchin to the son-in-law and heir apparent to industrial mogul Rupert Douglass. Though it lacks passion, his life seems securely set: a wife, a career, property, standing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when tragedy strikes, all of his plans and his entire future dissolve in an instant. McLendon's instinct for survival kicks in; he flees Saint Louis, and Douglas assigns his enforcer, an ominous skull-cracker with steel-toed boots, to track him down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith nothing to lose, McLendon attempts to reconcile with an old flame-a woman he was nearly engaged to but put aside in exchange for the life now in shambles. He heard through the grapevine that she and her father moved their dry-goods store out west, to a speck-on-the-map mining town named Glorious, in the Arizona Territory. There, McLendon tries to win her back, and in the process discovers a new way of life at the edge of the final American frontier. But he can't outrun his past forever. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161566822640,"sku":"2940169322453","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169322453_p0.jpg?v=1763679438","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169322453","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}