{"title":"Jennifer Brody","description":"Jennifer Brody is a New York Times-bestselling author, Stoker Award finalist, and graduate of Harvard University. Her books include the Continuum Trilogy, the Disney Chills series, and Stranger Things: Starcourt Mall Escape. She is the coauthor of All Is Found: A Frozen Anthology and Star Wars: Stories of Jedi and Sith. A fan of all things dark, weird, and wonderful, she's always writing something exciting and new.","products":[{"product_id":"karma-is-a-beast-a-dark-romantic-thriller-paperback","title":"Karma Is a Beast: A Dark Romantic Thriller - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this suspenseful sequel from the NYT-bestselling \u003ci\u003eauthor that blends\u003c\/i\u003e Ready or Not \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e You, he hunted her for leaving--now she's hunting him right back.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorgan Steele came to the snowy Berkshires with her two best friends for a stay at the Namaste Center, a luxury wellness retreat for elite women, to get away from her cheating ex, Noah Barron. But one week later, her friends are dead, and she's on the run from a gang of patriarchal killers called Sanctum Victus. 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Her two best friends insisted she needed the detox, meditation, and most of all, distance from her complicated ex, Noah. No phones, no distractions, just a chance to reset and move on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Morgan isn't sure she wants to move on. All she really wants is for Noah to apologize for the affair that ruined their chance at happiness. From the outside, she appears to have it all: she's built a life of success in the big city, far from her rough childhood. But she grew up clinging to the survivalist skills her alcoholic father taught her before he drank himself to death. Self-reinvention was her way out, and she made sure \u003ci\u003eno one\u003c\/i\u003e would ever figure out where she came from--not even Noah.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, as Morgan tries to bury her heartbreak in spiritual escape, she can't shake the feeling that something's wrong with the Namaste Center and its oddly serene staff. A mountain lion lies gutted on the road, its blood melting the snow. The guru's serene chants twist into eerie rituals by firelight. And in the meditation garden, stick figures left by past guests sway in the branches, taunting Morgan with shadows that feel alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs cryptic warnings from a hunter echo through the trees and the other women begin to mysteriously disappear, Morgan's instincts scream \"danger\" and she realizes she's not here to heal. Something sinister stalks these woods. Driven by a need to uncover the truth and a desperate desire to survive, she digs in. Noah may have broken her heart, but whatever's lurking here has the power to break far more--if she doesn't break \u003ci\u003eit\u003c\/i\u003e first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wild ride through the dark territory of love, mystery, and horror. 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