{"product_id":"9781429973090","title":"The Tea Rose (Tea Rose Series #1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEast London, 1888-a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, by the whispering waters of the Thames, a bright and defiant young woman dares to dream of a life beyond tumbledown wharves, gaslit alleys, and the grim and crumbling dwellings of the poor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Fiona's dreams are shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Fearing her own death at the dark man's hands, she is forced to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit-and the ghosts of her past-propel her rise from a modest west side shopfront to the top of Manhattan's tea trade. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFiona's old ghosts do not rest quietly, however, and to silence them, she must venture back to the London of her childhood, where a deadly confrontation with her past becomes the key to her future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tea Rose\u003c\/i\u003e is a towering old-fashioned story, imbued with a modern sensibility, of a family's destruction, of murder and revenge, of love lost and won again, and of one determined woman's quest to survive and triumph.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthentic and moving, \u003ci\u003eThe Tea Rose\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable novel-one certain to take its place beside such enduring epics as \u003ci\u003eA Woman of Substance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Thornbirds\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Shell Seekers.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127401922800,"sku":"9781429973090","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429973090_p0.jpg?v=1763750015","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429973090","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}