{"product_id":"the-groundhogs-bride-a-dark-valentines-tale-9798295562921","title":"The Groundhog's Bride: A Dark Valentine's Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Matthew Petchinsky\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Apophis Enterprises LLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Apophis Enterprises LLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Horror - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery year, the town celebrates Groundhog Day as harmless tradition. Every year, winter lingers just a little too long. And every year, no one asks why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChosen as the ceremonial \"bride\" for the annual ritual, a young woman believes she is participating in symbolic folklore-until the groundhog stops at her feet and refuses to move. Beneath the snow-covered hill, ancient vows stir, bones remember, and a groom crowned in frost awakens from centuries of waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as ritual becomes courtship. What becomes courtship turns into a contract written on flesh, heartbeat, and season. As desire and dread entwine, she discovers the truth buried beneath the altar stone: winter does not end by chance. It is ruled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarkly romantic, psychologically twisted, and seductively eerie, \u003cem\u003eThe Groundhog's Bride: A Dark Valentine's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e reimagines love as power, marriage as dominion, and devotion as something far more dangerous than death. This is not a story where spring saves the day-but one where winter is finally chosen.\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers who crave gothic romance, folkloric horror, and stories where love does not redeem, but transforms.","brand":"Apophis Enterprises LLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47571624689815,"sku":"9798295562921","price":699.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798295562921.webp?v=1774887724","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-groundhogs-bride-a-dark-valentines-tale-9798295562921","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}