{"product_id":"the-green-man-9781965788844","title":"The Green Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eLena Grove has made a dangerous mistake. Misappropriating Yale's funds, she abandons her study of sacred places to chase something far darker-sites of true evil. Cast out by the university and the best man she ever knew, she walks a treacherous path, inviting forces she cannot control into her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer grandmother, Effie, knows the truth-Lena's father and mother were not merely lost, but taken by something beyond human understanding. The plants he studied did more than grow-they reached, they chose, they consumed. And now, Lena's reckless pursuit threatens to unearth forbidden knowledge about the morality of the plant world, knowledge that may consume her as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this eerie blend of paranormal mystery and unsettling romance, Lena is drawn into a battle between science and the supernatural, good and evil, life and death. The man who loves her cannot understand her obsession, and she cannot ignore the pull of the darkness she seeks. But some truths are better left buried, and some things-once awakened-will never sleep again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHughes, John Calvin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - John Calvin Hughes has published in numerous magazines and journals, including Dead Mule, Southern Indiana Review, Autumn Sky Poetry, The Timberline Review, The American Journal of Poetry, and Mississippi Review. His publications include a critical study, The Novels and Short Stories of Frederick Barthelme (The Edwin Mellen Press); two poetry chapbooks, The Shape of Our Luck (Sargent Press) and Cul-de-sac Agonistes (Black Bomb Books); a full-length poetry collection, Music from a Farther Room (Aldrich Press); and four novels, Twilight of the Lesser Gods (CreateSpace), Killing Rush (Second Wind Publishing), The Lost Gospel of Darnell Rabren (Bowen Press Books), and The Boys (Regal House). Nominated for a Pushcart in 2015, he is also the winner of the Ilse and Hans Juergensen Poetry Contest and The Thomas Burnett Swann Poetry Prize. He lives and works in Florida.","brand":"Page Turner Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749419778322,"sku":"9781965788844","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_65b69c0e-c716-4657-b94e-f7e4c77fbd6f.jpg?v=1764084300","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-green-man-9781965788844","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}