{"product_id":"the-velvet-clover-a-christmas-romance-9798992650136","title":"The Velvet Clover: A Christmas Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAva Hawthorne's life is perfectly curated-career-driven, fiercely independent, and resolutely unromantic-until a breakup eight days before Christmas leaves her unexpectedly single and craving change. So, she does what any self-respecting woman would: books a ticket to New York, dodges her family's pity, and chases a shiny new job at a centuries-old Irish atelier.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring her stay at the historic Fitzgerald Hotel, with its overdone Irish charm, a too-jolly mysterious bartender points her toward a velvet curtain. The catch? When Ava steps through, she finds herself in a speakeasy one hundred years in the past-in 1925, to be exact. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAva swore never to give her power away to love, or let a man derail her ambitions again. But drawn back to the speakeasy night after night, she finds herself pulled into a connection with the enigmatic owner, Cillian, whose piercing eyes and infuriating calm make her want to both kiss him and throw a drink in his face. Their connection is as magnetic as it is impossible: Cillian belongs to 1925; she belongs to 2025. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the Christmas lights of the city glow around her, Ava must face the fear she's carried since childhood-that love only leads to loss. Because falling for Cillian means risking everything: her career, her control, and her heart on a love that-by all logic-was never supposed to happen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWill Ava uncover the truth lurking within The Velvet Clover? Can she resist the allure of a past that threatens to consume her? When the lines between her reality and this shadowy world begin to blur, will she find the courage to choose her own path-or be lost to the secrets that bind her?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDevi, Aria Devi:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Aria Devi is the #1 Amazon bestselling author of The Other Woman and Wanter Dynamics \u0026amp; The Love We Are. The Velvet Clover is her third novel. She lives and writes in Austin, Texas.","brand":"Aria Devi Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51720972992786,"sku":"9798992650136","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_28834149-3581-4421-a454-ffe0f015dad9.jpg?v=1762943827","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-velvet-clover-a-christmas-romance-9798992650136","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}