{"product_id":"9780061582721","title":"Sleeping Beauty","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller \u003ci\u003eSleeping Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, a true-crime account of a deeply personal subject: the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss recent developments in his sister's case — unaware that pieces of this complex puzzle of violence, unknown even to the author, are about to be revealed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSix years earlier, life was much simpler for everyone involved, especially seventeen-year-old Ashley Spencer, a popular high school soccer star. Then one night an intruder entered Ashley's home and murdered her father and her best friend. Traumatized and suffering from a crippling sense of survivor guilt, Ashley is ready to give up on both soccer and life until help comes from an unexpected source — a scholarship to an elite private school is extended to her by school dean Casey Van Meter. The school quickly becomes a haven for both Ashley and her mother, Terri. As Ashley regains her sense of self through the school's soccer program, Terri joins a writing group for adults led by Joshua Maxfield, a former literary wunderkind who has disappeared from the bestseller lists since his second book was panned by both critics and fans.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThen tragedy strikes again and Ashley has to run for her life, unaware that the key to her survival is in the one book she's afraid to read — \u003ci\u003eSleeping Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  ","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013704532208,"sku":"9780061582721","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061582721_p0.jpg?v=1763621113","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061582721","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}