{"product_id":"the-missus-9780593794685","title":"The Missus","description":"The follow-up to the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \u003ci\u003eThe Mister\u003c\/i\u003e, a passionate and thrilling love story from E L James, author of the phenomenal bestselling Fifty Shades Trilogies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlessia regards her husband through heavy-lidded eyes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou'll have to fight for him.\u003c\/i\u003e Her mother's words from their call this morning ring through her head. And fight, she will. Using every available weapon she has.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe loves him. She knows this. She wants him.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd she wants him to want her.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat happens once the glass slipper fits...?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaxim Trevelyan, reluctant Earl of Trevethick, has pursued the woman he loves to the wilds of Albania. Having fought for and won her, he now has to wed her, at the sharp end of a shotgun. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut can a reformed rake like Maxim ever make a good husband ― or will his own notorious reputation and the scandalous secrets of his aristocratic family destroy his newfound happiness? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlessia Demachi has defied and outwitted kidnappers and traffickers, and won the heart of the man she loves, but can she make this marriage work? Confronted by Maxim's lurid past, his forbidding family, and the looks and whispers of London's elite, will she ever be seen as Maxim's countess ― or will she always be his former cleaner? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the majestic mountains of Albania, through the rural idyll of the English countryside, to the shady glamour of contemporary London, \u003ci\u003eThe Missus\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding journey of love, longing, acceptance, and redemption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eE L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e and its two sequels, \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades Darker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades Freed\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller \u003ci\u003eGrey\u003c\/i\u003e, the story of \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping \u003ci\u003eDarker\u003c\/i\u003e, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian's point of view. She followed with the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \u003ci\u003eThe Mister\u003c\/i\u003e in 2019. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e E L James has been recognized as one of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's \"Most Influential People in the World\" and \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Person of the Year.\" \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e stayed on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller list for 133 consecutive weeks. \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades Freed\u003c\/i\u003e won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS's \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Read\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). \u003ci\u003eDarker\u003c\/i\u003e was long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She was a producer on each of the three Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third installment, \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades Freed\u003c\/i\u003e, won the People's Choice Award for Drama in 2018. E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their West Highland terriers in the leafy suburbs of West London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Audio Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50487870357778,"sku":"9780593794685","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d705a986-e946-4397-8a01-029cdd609536.jpg?v=1730457387","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-missus-9780593794685","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}