{"product_id":"what-passes-as-love-9781542030601","title":"What Passes as Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA young woman pays a devastating price for freedom in this heartrending and breathtaking novel of the nineteenth-century South.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e1850. I was six years old the day Lewis Holt came to take me away.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn into slavery, Dahlia never knew her mother--or what happened to her. When Dahlia's father, the owner of Vesterville plantation, takes her to work in his home as a servant, she's desperately lonely. Forced to leave behind her best friend, Bo, she lives in a world between black and white, belonging to neither.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen years later, Dahlia meets Timothy Ross, an Englishman in need of a wife. Reinventing herself as Lily Dove, Dahlia allows Timothy to believe she's white, with no family to speak of, and agrees to marry him. She knows the danger of being found out. She also knows she'll never have this chance at freedom again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnsconced in the Ross mansion, Dahlia soon finds herself held captive in a different way--as the dutiful wife of a young man who has set his sights on a political future. But when Bo arrives on the estate in shackles, Dahlia decides to risk everything to save his life. With suspicions of her true identity growing and a bounty hunter not far behind, Dahlia must act fast or pay a devastating price.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas, Trisha R.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eTrisha R. Thomas has been featured in \u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's Books That Made a Difference. Her work has been featured and reviewed in \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEssence\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSeattle Post-Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eNappily Ever After\u003c\/i\u003e, is now a popular Netflix original film. She is also a reviewer for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. Trisha is a recipient of the Literary Lion Award from the King County Library System Foundation, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, and was voted Best New Writer by the Black Writers Collective. For more information visit www.trisharthomas.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lake Union Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50393149866258,"sku":"9781542030601","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/91uRptz6QUL._SL1500.jpg?v=1728985584","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-passes-as-love-9781542030601","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}