{"product_id":"2940169440232","title":"A Bridge Across the Ocean","description":"\u003cb\u003eWartime intrigue spans the lives of three women-past and present-in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eSecrets of a Charmed Life\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFebruary, 1946.\u003c\/i\u003e World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina desperate to escape her past, and Simone Deveraux, the wronged daughter of a French Résistance spy.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Now the two women are joining hundreds of other European war brides aboard the renowned RMS\u003ci\u003e Queen Mary\u003c\/i\u003e to cross the Atlantic and be reunited with their American husbands. Their new lives in the United States brightly beckon until their tightly-held secrets are laid bare in their shared stateroom. When the voyage ends at New York Harbor, only one of them will disembark...\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePresent day. \u003c\/i\u003eFacing a crossroads in her own life, Brette Caslake visits the famously haunted \u003ci\u003eQueen Mary\u003c\/i\u003e at the request of an old friend. What she finds will set her on a course to solve a seventy-year-old tragedy that will draw her into the heartaches and triumphs of the courageous war brides-and will ultimately lead her to reconsider what she has to sacrifice to achieve her own deepest longings.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158806216944,"sku":"2940169440232","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169440232_p0.jpg?v=1763682731","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169440232","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}