{"product_id":"the-blues-and-billie-armstrong-9798218823351","title":"The Blues and Billie Armstrong","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArcher King is thirteen years old in the midst of the historic upheavals of 1970 America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter his mother's mysterious death, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ehis father remarries and he gains a stepsister-the barefoot, braless, hand-on-hip seventeen-year-old Billie Armstrong, whose larger-than-life personality and radical politics open Archer's eyes to new ideas (and feelings) but cause friction in the small town, especially with Archer's hero, local baseball legend Hank Timmons, home on leave before shipping out to the war in Vietnam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen they discover a cache of old records\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e and love letters, Archer and Billie team up in a quest to learn the truth about his mother's secret affair and its connection to her death. But their investigation is sidetracked when the sparks between Billie and Hank erupt into flames.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eForty years later, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Archer is a prize-winning San Francisco newspaper columnist renowned as a fearless truth-teller. At the height of his success, Billie is captured after decades on the run from a murder charge. Archer can clear her name only by revealing the secrets he's kept hidden since that fateful spring of 1970. Secrets that will risk his career, his financial wellbeing, his personal brand, his very identity... and ultimately his freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDufrain, Roy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Roy Dufrain Jr is a writer and musician who grew up in the hills of Northern California and spent much of his work-life in the newspaper and magazine business. He now lives in North Alabama with his wife and a precocious goldendoodle named Andy. He is a graduate of Sonoma State University, and the Continuing Studies Novel Writing Certificate Program at Stanford University. The Blues and Billie Armstrong is his first published novel.","brand":"Bloodwater Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985499521298,"sku":"9798218823351","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d4df1e47-60da-4791-a647-350f4737f1b8.jpg?v=1769538229","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-blues-and-billie-armstrong-9798218823351","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}