{"product_id":"the-mister-9781984898326","title":"The Mister","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller--a thrilling and seductive Cinderella love story from E L James, author of the phenomenal bestselling Fifty Shades Trilogy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eClasping her plait at the base of her neck, I tug lightly, bringing her lips up to mine. \"Alessia,\" I breathe, and kiss her again, softly, slowly. She stills in my arms, then brings her hands up to clutch my biceps, closing her eyes as she accepts me. I deepen the kiss, my tongue teasing her lips, and she opens her mouth. She tastes of warmth and grace and sweet seduction.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLondon, present day. Life has always been easy for Maxim Trevelyan, the \"spare\" to the earldom of Trevethick. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he's never had to work, and he's rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim inherits his family's title, wealth, and estates, and the responsibility that entails. It's a role he's not prepared for and one he struggles to face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut his biggest challenge is fighting his desire for an unexpected, enigmatic young woman who's recently joined his staff. Reticent, beautiful, and musically gifted, she's an alluring mystery, possessing little more than a dangerous and troublesome past. As Maxim's longing for her deepens into a passion he's never experienced and dares not name, he's left to wonder just who is Alessia Demachi? And can he protect her from the malevolence that threatens her?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the heart of London through wild, rural Cornwall to the bleak, forbidding beauty of the Albanian Balkans, \u003cem\u003eThe Mister\u003c\/em\u003e combines the sensuality of a modern Regency romance with the danger, desire, and adventure of E L James's captivating storytelling, leaving the reader breathless to the very last page.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003estory from Christian's point of view. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 150 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBest Seller 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 has been long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She coproduced for Universal Studios the 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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":"Bloom Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50607811297554,"sku":"9781984898326","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8ffd72e8-b891-4503-90ee-2feb8e99405b.jpg?v=1732314206","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-mister-9781984898326","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}