{"product_id":"sugar-skulls-corsets-a-novel-9798295547126","title":"Sugar Skulls \u0026 Corsets (A Novel)","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jo Anna | Jo Ann Gray\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Jo Ann Gray\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Jo Ann Gray\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the heart of New Orleans's French Quarter, where gas lamps flicker against wrought-iron balconies and music drifts like a haunting lullaby, Sophie tends her small shop on Royal Street. With needle and lace, she fashions corsets and masks... exquisite works of art that conceal as much as they reveal. Across the street, Victor dwells in his own world of creation, shaping sugar skulls and painting canvases steeped in color, passion, and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn to each other across the narrow street, Sophie and Victor fall into a courtship as intoxicating as the French Quarter itself. Their love is stitched in silk and painted bone, a union of fire and shadow. Yet beneath Victor's green-eyed charm lies a secret he cannot share, a sickness that slowly consumes him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs festivals blaze, masquerades swirl, and their love burns brighter against the gathering dark, Sophie and Victor discover that passion can be both salvation and ruin. When the truth of his illness is revealed, their romance becomes a race against time... a desperate devotion that neither lace nor art can preserve...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSugar Skulls \u0026amp; Corsets\u003c\/em\u003e is a romantic, gothic tale of love and loss, desire and mourning... a story of two artists bound together by creation, undone by fate, and remembered forever in silk and sugar...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlus much more... Poetry and so on...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes the short tale: \u003cem\u003eConversation With A Ghost \u003c\/em\u003e\u0026amp; \u003cem\u003ePoem: The Lady Pianist\u003c\/em\u003e...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jo Ann Gray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47568749854871,"sku":"9798295547126","price":2822.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798295547126.webp?v=1774870567","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sugar-skulls-corsets-a-novel-9798295547126","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}