{"product_id":"double-standard-sporting-house-paperback","title":"Double Standard Sporting House - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of Ariel Lawhon's \u003ci\u003eThe Frozen River\u003c\/i\u003e, debut historical fiction about a brothel nurse in nineteenth-century New York City who fights brutality in the sex trade and pioneers treatments for survivors of sexual violence.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA high-class brothel that entertains New York's most powerful men, the Double Standard Sporting House funds a free clinic for women. When the Tammany Hall criminal syndicate takes over the city in 1868 and starts kidnapping girls, the house's owner Nell \"Doc\" Hastings cannot stay quiet--especially after sixteen-year-old Vivie arrives at the clinic bruised and bleeding. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eResolving to seek justice for Vivie and girls like her, Doc builds an unlikely alliance with religious reformers, a rare honest ward cop, and an alluring newspaper publisher she can't seem to keep away from. Even with their help, Doc will have to use her sharpest tools--secrets, guile, and a surgical blade--to prevent a dark turn in the sex trade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFull of intrigue, friendship, and love, this timely story of a heroine erased from history by the sexual double standard reminds us that women help and heal one another, even when shameless criminals come to power.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102208594143,"sku":"9798896360520","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/FXEEm0SSAn9798896360520.webp?v=1781079144","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/double-standard-sporting-house-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}