{"product_id":"9781611946826","title":"The Beloved Woman","description":"Her people uprooted by broken promises. Her heart torn by conflicting desires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Trail of Tears: The forced exodus of the Cherokee people from their homeland in Georgia to make way for the white gold miners and settlers. Katherine Blue Song's family never lived to see the Trail of Tears. They were massacred just as she returned from Philadelphia, where she'd been one of the country's first women trained as a doctor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJustis Gallatin, a white man, a rough-and-ready miner, was Jesse Blue Song's friend and partner. Before he buried the victims of the massacre, he made a solemn promise to protect Katherine. But the lovely and headstrong Cherokee healer would not be protected or owned by any man. Her destiny was with her own people, to use her skills on the long, arduous journey westward.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom plush New York hotels to the savage sorrow of the Trail of Tears, Katherine and Justis are torn asunder by a continent's history and hurled together because of a passion as vast as the lands they love, lost, and fight to regain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beloved Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is the prequel to \u003ci\u003eFollow The Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of three contemporary novels about the Gallatin descendants. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeborah Smith is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and Kindle bestseller of more than thirty-five romance and women's fiction novels. \u003ci\u003eA Place To Call Home\u003c\/i\u003e has been voted one of the best romance novels of the 20th century in two reader surveys. \u003ci\u003eThe Crossroads Café\u003c\/i\u003e was No. 1 on the Kindle bestseller list, and has more than 700 4.5 star reviews. Learn more about Deborah's books at www.bellbridgebooks.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BelleBooks Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139011920112,"sku":"9781611946826","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611946826_p0.jpg?v=1763842506","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611946826","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}