{"product_id":"the-engagement-9781416561637","title":"The Engagement","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Chloe Hooper\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: to stay with Alexander Colquhoun, the handsome, well-mannered heir of an Australian pastoral dynasty, at his country seat some hours from Melbourne.\u003c\/b\u003e Liese is English. She's come to Australia to work at her uncle's real-estate business and pay off her debts. Alexander has been looking for a place in the city. The luxury apartments Liese shows him have become sets for a relationship that satisfies their fantasies--and her financial problems. Both players understand the rules. Or so she thinks. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross the ancient landscape they drive at dusk to his grand decaying mansion. Here Liese senses a change in Alexander and realizes that a different game has begun. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChloe Hooper's riveting and provocative new novel is a psychological thriller for the modern age, an exploration of the snares of money and love and the dark side of erotic imagination. A trap has been set, but how and why? And for whom?\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45410629615767,"sku":"9781416561637","price":1229.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781416561637.webp?v=1767149663","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-engagement-9781416561637","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}