{"product_id":"9781627799621","title":"Cutting Loose","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Show some respect, young man...Just what was this young woman to you?\" Jackie looked into the nurse's pinkface.  \"Nance was the best friend I ever had,\" she said.  \"The only friend I ever had.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJackie is Jack Cross to everyone except Nance, a Wild West show trick shooter in turn-of-the-century New York who has her own secrets to hide.  A slick-fielding second baseman with a good bat, Jackie must never drop her disguise if she is to continue to play professional baseball.  But when Nance is murdered by a knife-thrower who does know Jackie's secret, the young ballplayer takes off on a transatlantic chase that changes her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet on two continents, in three different time-periods, with a fascinating cast of characters including Buffalo Bill Cody, Jack the Ripper, and a musical star named Ruby the Red who has still another hidden life, Cutting Loose is a multi-layered page-turner filled with insights and surprises.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157560246512,"sku":"9781627799621","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781627799621_p0.jpg?v=1763870927","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781627799621","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}