{"title":"Joanna Lowell","description":"Joanna Lowell lives among the fig trees in North Carolina, where she teaches in the English department at Wake Forest University. When she's not writing historical romance, she writes collections and novels as Joanna Ruocco. Those books include Dan, Another Governess \/ The Least Blacksmith, The Week, and Field Glass, coauthored with Joanna Howard.","products":[{"product_id":"a-rare-find-paperback","title":"A Rare Find - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen an aspiring archaeologist teams up with her childhood enemy for a treasure hunt, they find it impossible to bury their growing feelings, in a charming queer historical romance from the author of \u003ci\u003eA Shore Thing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Elfreda Marsden has finally made a major discovery--an ancient amulet proving the Viking army camped on her family's estate. 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