{"product_id":"charring-bones-9798348501853","title":"Charring Bones","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou're either the hunter or the hunted. The lion or the lamb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBound on an altar. Belts of deceit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTangerine skies. Taunted by time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScorch. Stack. Salt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe's my nightmare. My weakness. My Wicked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAinsley Morelli was everything I craved, the breath in my lungs, my only home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut she sent me to die, and threw dirt on my grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat was another life. When she had the upper hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this one, I'm the lead enforcer for KORT. And she's on the run and in my backyard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI've waited years to ruin her and her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer smoking gun might do it for me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo need to rush. I've always enjoyed playing with my prey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAinsley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy life as a Morelli has been full of duplicities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetrayal traded for loyalty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecoming a fugitive for freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Gage Porter was at the center of every unraveling thread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly he wasn't Gage then. And he didn't survive-or so I thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil a man three times the size of the boy with amber eyes pins me to a wall in the shelter where I took refuge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI sought protection and became a prisoner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut times are changing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this story, the burnt offering rises to be the butcher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFreed by the very hands that counted my fleeting breaths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil the ticking stops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFamily means sacrifice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is book four in The KORT Series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Night Bloom Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384328716562,"sku":"9798348501853","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6087ac9a-f109-4649-8182-fd5d967fdfbf.jpg?v=1750170535","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/charring-bones-9798348501853","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}