{"product_id":"9781944591427","title":"Daring and Decorum: A Highwayman Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Collington, the twenty-year-old daughter of a country vicar, longs for more than the circumscribed life of her 18th-century Devonshire village. When a highwayman steals a kiss along with her mother's necklace – provoking feelings of which her father would never approve – she suddenly has a secret no one must know. But the highwayman also has a secret: \"he\" is actually a woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill the story of the highwayman's past – complete with a tyrannical husband, a gloomy castle, and a daring escape into London's underworld – persuade Elizabeth to abandon propriety in favor of passion? In the end, can the lovers make an independent life in a world where women are little more than property, evading both the redcoats and the jealous young lord who would tear them apart?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDaring and Decorum\u003c\/em\u003e is comedy of manners wrapped around a gothic tale; a mashup of Jane Austen, Alfred Noyes' poem \u003cem\u003eThe Highwayman, \u003c\/em\u003eRobin Hood, and Moll Cutpurse; and a passionate case for the freedom to love whom one chooses, \u003cem\u003eDaring and Decorum: A Highwayman Novel\u003c\/em\u003e should appeal to fans of Ellen Kushner's Riverside series, Emma Donoghue's \u003cem\u003eLife Mask, \u003c\/em\u003eand Michelle Martin's \u003cem\u003ePembroke Park \u003c\/em\u003e(billed as the first lesbian Regency).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Supposed Crimes, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054434631920,"sku":"9781944591427","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781944591427_p0.jpg?v=1763804598","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781944591427","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}