{"product_id":"9780615499734","title":"The Prodigal Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\"The Prodigal Hour, the audacious, genre-bending novel by Will Entrekin, is a Rubik's Cube of delights. Equal parts sci-fi, thriller, coming-of-age, and love story, the novel hurtles readers along Chance Sowin's intriguingly unpredictable journey--forward, backward, and inward. A thrilling head rush of a book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Elizabeth Eslami, author of \u003cem\u003eBone Worship: A Novel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Chance Sowin hoped only for a new beginning.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn October 31, 2001, six weeks after escaping the World Trade Center attacks, Chance Sowin moves back home, hoping for familiarity and security. Instead, he interrupts a burglary as his father, Dennis, is shot and killed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a homicide investigation escalates when the Joint Terrorism Task Force arrrives. Where he hoped for solutions, Chance finds only more questions: who killed his father, and why? Was his father-a physicist at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study-working on dangerous research? Why did Dennis build a secret laboratory in his basement?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChance might not know the answers, but Cassie Lackesis, Dennis' research assistant, thinks she does. She isn't certain that Dennis discovered a way to time travel, but she knows who told her: Chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether with Cassie, Chance will go on a journey across time and space that will challenge his every notion of ideas like \"right\" and \"good.\" One young man's desire to make a difference will become, instead, a race against time as he tries to prevent forces he could never understand from not just destroying the universe but rendering it nonexistent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen every action has a reaction, every force its counter, Chance will find that the truest measure of his character is not what he wants but what he will do when the prodigal hour returns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Exciting Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872923721968,"sku":"9780615499734","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780615499734_p0.jpg?v=1784235015","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615499734","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}