{"title":"Anna Lee Huber","description":"Anna Lee Huber is the Daphne Award-winning author of the national bestselling Lady Darby Mysteries and the Verity Kent Mysteries. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in music and minored in psychology. She currently resides in Indiana with her family and is hard at work on her next novel.","products":[{"product_id":"a-tarnished-canvas-paperback","title":"A Tarnished Canvas - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLady Kiera Darby had planned to spend the winter practicing her painting, but instead, she must find the flaw in a killer's masterpiece when an art auction results in one participant's final bid....\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarch 1833. Kiera and her husband, Sebastian Gage, have decided to settle in Edinburgh for the winter with their infant daughter. 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Kiera and Gage must utilize all their resources to unveil a monster willing to risk the lives of dozens of bystanders to achieve their ends. But they're on the verge of making a dire miscalculation. For one of the cleverest tricks in a painter's repertoire is the art of misdirection, and their eyes have been drawn far from the gravest danger.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102763946207,"sku":"9780593639436","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VtJ2bg3u6x9780593639436.webp?v=1781087314"},{"product_id":"a-moments-shadow-paperback","title":"A Moment's Shadow - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eViolence, reprisal, and intrigue abound in post-World War I Ireland as the bloody conflict between the Irish Republican Army and the British authorities continues to escalate. 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