{"product_id":"9781938293245","title":"The Male Mail-Order Bride","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1880 New York City, Patrick has it rough. No family, no money-he has to steal food to survive, and he lives under the porch of a hotel. Patrick has no job, because he's too small and puny a man to work at physical labor, and he doesn't have enough schooling to be a clerk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen he sees a newspaper ad saying that the Mail Order Bride Company is looking for young women who are willing to take a train out west and to marry a lonely man, sight unseen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo Patrick, the idea seems simple: Dress up as a young woman, scam the Mail Order Bride Company out of a train ticket, travel for free to somewhere west of New York, ditch the women's clothes, and start a new life in a new city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick's plan works at first. But then he discovers that every time the train pulls into a station, the Mail Order Bride Company has someone there to make sure that \"Charity\" doesn't leave \"her\" train.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what really messes up the plan is a kindly old woman on the train. She reads to \"Charity\" from what \"Charity\" believes is merely a book of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTags: 1880s, Chicago (IL), cross-dressing, fantasy, Fort Wayne (IN), historical fantasy, magic, magical transformation, New York City (NY), orphan, orphanage, romance, slow transformation, tg, train travel, transgender, transvestite, Webster (SD)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story is 47,100 words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hypo To Helio Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044215570672,"sku":"9781938293245","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781938293245_p0.jpg?v=1763663979","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938293245","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}