{"product_id":"9781609822507","title":"The Long Road","description":"Virginia Whorten is alone. In a desperate bid for freedom, she escapes her opulent gilded cage. Afraid to stop moving, she runs in fear that her powerful, brutal husband will find her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClay Dirksen, a successful landowner and farmer, meets Ginn and is immediately taken by her sweetness and gentle vulnerability. He sees the future in her eyes and the pain she's endured in the past. It takes time-and gentleness-to woo the broken woman, but with care, she learns to find her heart once more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat they find together is a world of passion, fire and joy. In each other's arms, they find what each has been searching for all their lives. Through steamy nights and laughter-filled days, they fall deep in love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut it's not to last. Ginn is torn from the heaven she finds with Clay, snatched away by her husband's vicious design. Setting his hired thugs on the unsuspecting Clay, JP Whorten leaves his wife's lover beaten and near death while he carries Ginn back to hell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrapped in the dungeons below her husband's house, she has given up on life. Existing solely on the memories of Clay's touch and the magical light in his eyes, she little resembles the woman she once was. She spends her days as a slave, awaiting her husband's ruthless pleasures and praying for the deliverance of death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClay wakes in the hospital in a state of panic over what may have happened to Ginn. Enraged over his inability to save her, he forces his uncooperative, broken body to walk out of the hospital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill he be able to find her? Will he be in time?","brand":"Excessica Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135113150704,"sku":"9781609822507","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609822507_p0.jpg?v=1763843070","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609822507","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}