{"product_id":"sunshine-9780515138818","title":"Sunshine","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning and national bestselling author, Robin McKinley, comes this dark, sensual vampire fairy tale. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sunshine\" is what everyone calls her. She works long hours in her family's coffeehouse, making her famous \"Cinnamon Rolls as Big as Your Head,\" Bitter Chocolate Death, Caramel Cataclysm, and other sugar-shock specials that keep the customers coming. She's happy in her bakery--which her stepfather built specially for her--but sometimes she feels that she should have life outside the coffeehouse. One evening she drives out to the lake to get away from her family, to be alone. There hasn't been any trouble at the lake for years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut there is trouble that night for Sunshine. She is abducted by a gang of vampires who shackle her to the wall of an abandoned mansion, within easy reach of a figure stirring in the moonlight. Sunshine knows that he is a vampire and that she is to be his dinner. Yet when dawn breaks he has not attempted to harm her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd now he needs her help to survive the day...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobin McKinley has won various awards and citations for her writing, including the Newbery Medal for \u003ci\u003eThe Hero and the Crown\u003c\/i\u003e and a Newbery Honor for \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Sword\u003c\/i\u003e. Her other books include \u003ci\u003eSunshine\u003c\/i\u003e; the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eSpindle's End\u003c\/i\u003e; two novel-length retellings of the fairy tale \u003ci\u003eBeauty and the Beast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeauty and Rose Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e; and a retelling of the \u003ci\u003eRobin Hood\u003c\/i\u003e legend, \u003ci\u003eThe Outlaws of Sherwood\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives with her husband, the English writer Peter Dickinson.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Berkley Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50720770916626,"sku":"9780515138818","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f53c9efa-e022-43bf-a2ff-5408a775f837.jpg?v=1734675916","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sunshine-9780515138818","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}