{"product_id":"9780316376167","title":"The Tailgate: An Original Short Story","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA digital original short story about young lovers at separate colleges, exploring the early years of the central relationship in Elin Hilderbrand's forthcoming novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Matchmaker\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClendenin Hughes first kissed Dabney Kimball during a Nantucket snowstorm freshman year of high school. Ever since that moment - God, the rush, the chemistry! - Dabney has known that she and Clen are an unsplittable unit - essentially the same person in two different bodies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf course, with Dabney now at Harvard and Clen at Yale, those bodies are 140 miles apart. And traveling is a serious challenge for Dabney, for reasons she'd prefer not to discuss, reasons having to do with her mother (or lack thereof). But with the big Harvard-Yale game coming up, Dabney is determined to make the trek to New Haven to see Clen. She's even borrowed a sexy black outfit from a classmate down the hall. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when she arrives at the tailgate to see sparks flying between Clen and Jocelyn, a girl with dark blue eyes and luscious black hair, Dabney fears the collapse of a bond she has never questioned before, a bond so important that she'll be lost without it. A stirring portrait of young love at a crossroads, THE TAILGATE introduces two irresistible characters and invites us into a world we don't want to leave. To learn the fates of Dabney and Clen, read Elin Hilderbrand's forthcoming novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Matchmaker\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120857727216,"sku":"9780316376167","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316376167_p0.jpg?v=1763681149","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316376167","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}