{"title":"Meg Shaffer","description":"Meg Shaffer is the USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Story and The Wishing Game, which was a Book of the Month finalist for Book of the Year as well as a Reader's Digest and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and has been translated into twenty-three languages. Shaffer holds an MFA in TV and Screenwriting from Stephens College. She lives in Kentucky with her husband and two cats. The cats are not writers.","products":[{"product_id":"the-lost-story-paperback","title":"The Lost Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Inspired by C. S. 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