{"title":"Christina Dodd","description":"Christina Dodd is a New York Times bestselling author whose suspense, paranormal, historical, and mystery novels have been translated into 30 languages and sold more than 15 million copies in print. Praised for her \"brilliantly etched characters, polished writing, and unexpected flashes of sharp humor that are pure Dodd\" (Booklist), her award-winning books have landed on numerous Best of the Year lists and, much to her mother's delight, Dodd was once a clue in the Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle. She lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest, where her 700 lavender plants share the yard with her husband's various \"Big Projects,\" including a treehouse, zipline, and their very own Stonehenge. Enter Christina's worlds and join her mailing list for humor, book news and entertainment (yes, she's the proud author with the infamous three-armed cover) at ChristinaDodd.com.","products":[{"product_id":"a-daughter-of-fair-verona-paperback","title":"A Daughter of Fair Verona - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI'm the eldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet. Yes, \u003c\/i\u003ethat\u003ci\u003e Romeo and Juliet. No, they didn't die in the tomb. 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Only here's the thing: That's not how it ended at all. Romeo and Juliet are alive and well and the parents of seven kids. I'm the oldest, with the emphasis on \"old\"--a certified spinster at twenty, and happy to stay that way. It's not easy to keep your taste for romance with parents like mine. Picture it--constant monologues, passionate declarations, fighting, making up, making out . . . it's exhausting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach time they've presented me with a betrothal, I've set out to find the groom-to-be a more suitable bride. But their latest match, Duke Stephano, isn't so easy to palm off. The debaucher has had three wives--all of whom met unfortunate ends. Conscience forbids me from consigning another woman to that fate. As it turns out, I don't have to . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt our betrothal ball--where, quite by accident, I meet a beautiful young man who makes me wonder if perhaps there \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e something to love at first sight--I stumble upon Duke Stephano with a dagger in his chest. But who killed him? Half of Verona had motive. And when everyone around the Duke begins dying, disappearing, or descending into madness, I know I must uncover the killer . . . before death lies on me like an untimely frost.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101178925279,"sku":"9781496750174","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qlyxlTiOZ9781496750174.webp?v=1781068414"},{"product_id":"thus-with-a-kiss-i-die-hardcover","title":"Thus with a Kiss I Die - Hardcover","description":"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101184790751,"sku":"9781420524758","price":64.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0ZmeuvmW2i9781420524758.webp?v=1781068426"},{"product_id":"thus-with-a-kiss-i-die-paperback","title":"Thus with a Kiss I Die - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe delightfully irreverent eldest daughter of the not-so-ill-fated Romeo and Juliet returns to sleuth another day in fair Verona, in this frothy, irreverent, witty historical mystery series with a refreshingly bold premise.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Woe, for I am the bug that meets the windshield's might, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo longer the speeding glass, smooth, clean and bright . . .\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou're right. I, Rosie Montague of Verona, am lousy at iambic pentameter and Shakespeare speak, but you get the point: Sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're the bug. I, who for my whole life, have cruised along, unruffled, am suddenly smashed flat and speeding recklessly up the WhattheHellHappened Highway. Why? you ask . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI'm 20 years old and by my own design, never been wed, free as no married woman ever is. I'm beautiful, but without conceit, for Juliet, my legendary Mamma is the most gorgeous creature to ever walk the earth. Just ask Romeo, my legendary Papà. (Rumors of their deaths were premature.) I was heartwhole until I fell (literally) in love with Lysander of the House of Beautiful. But our love was not to be, for I was thwarted by Escalus, the Prince of Verona . . . who had designs on \u003ci\u003eme\u003c\/i\u003e. I'm trapped. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen! I'm presented with a solution. 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