{"title":"Karleen Koen","description":"Karleen Koen is the New York Times bestselling author of the historical fiction novels Through a Glass Darkly,  Now Face to Face, Dark Angels, and Before Versailles. Koen lives in Texas.","products":[{"product_id":"now-face-to-face-paperback","title":"Now Face to Face - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe unforgettable sequel to Karleen Koen's beloved debut, \u003ci\u003eThrough a Glass Darkly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Book-of-the-Month Club main selection \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA bride at fifteen, widowed at the tender age of twenty, Barbara, Countess Devane, embarks for colonial Virginia financially ruined by the death of her husband in scandalous circumstances. Dressed in mourning as is proper for a woman, she is patronizingly described as a \"fragile black butterfly,\" but the fragility is deceiving. She makes a place for herself in the new world, takes lovers and friends across political divides, and questions the established traditions of slavery. Facing enemies she never suspected, she must return to England and deal face to face with the problems created by her husband, who haunts her even in death. Back in London, she quickly finds herself pulled into Jacobite plotting, and the treachery of powerful men suddenly threatens her family, her friends--and a new love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNow Face to Face\u003c\/i\u003e sweeps readers from eighteenth-century America to London and brings both worlds to vivid life. It is a magnificent evocation of an era, from the plantations of Virginia to Hanoverian England.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103745642719,"sku":"9780307406088","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qkCwLMgwsM9780307406088.webp?v=1781097551"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/karleen-koen.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}