{"title":"Tasha Alexander","description":"TASHA ALEXANDER, the daughter of two philosophy professors, studied English literature and medieval history at the University of Notre Dame. She and her husband, novelist Andrew Grant, live on a ranch in southeastern Wyoming.","products":[{"product_id":"the-sisterhood-a-lady-emily-mystery-hardcover","title":"The Sisterhood: A Lady Emily Mystery - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLady Emily investigates the murder of a glamorous debutante in the next irresistible mystery of Tasha Alexander's \u003ci\u003eNew York Time\u003c\/i\u003es bestselling series.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLondon, 1907: When the Season's most accomplished and elegant debutante, Victoria Goldsborough, collapses and dies at her engagement ball, the great and good of London Society prepare to mourn the tragic loss of an upstanding young woman. 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