{"product_id":"9781611945188","title":"The Nightingale Bones","description":"Someone has been waiting a long time for Alice Towne to arrive in Hawthorne. \u003cp\u003eTwo hundred years, in fact. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrying to accept her mother's belief that the women of the Towne family are blessed, not cursed, with supernatural abilities, twenty-seven-year old Alice leaves a disapproving Boston husband to housesit for the summer in tiny Hawthorne, a historic village famous in the 1800s for its peppermint farms and the large, herbal-essence distilleries that flourished around the Massachusetts township. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe settles into a beautiful old home with a tragic reputation. There are said to be sightings and sounds from the spirit of a young woman who hanged herself after all her children died there of illnesses in the 1900s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut soon, Alice experiences firsthand encounters that convince her the spirit is not who people think. The truth is shocking, steeped in the town's distillery history and its legends of a local wizard and witchcraft. As she falls in love with a local farmer whose family legacy is as tangled in the magick and the mystery as her own, Alice's fear becomes not whether the past can be resolved . . . but whether it's waiting to claim new victims. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAriel Swan teaches English and creative writing in western Massachusetts where she lives with her husband, three cats, and a small flock of happy chickens. Visit her at Arielswan.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BelleBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49989989925104,"sku":"9781611945188","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611945188","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}