{"product_id":"salome-hardcover-by-leslie-baird","title":"Salomé (hardcover) by Leslie Baird","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Smart, thoughtful, and sensual.\" —Chloe Benjamin,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Immortalists\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA gothic-tinged fever dream that reimagines the young American in France,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSalomé\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003efollows an adrift journalist who accepts an alluring stranger’s invitation to stay at her home in a small French town, only to uncover a dangerous family history that could bend the course of humanity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDon’t open your eyes…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCourtney notices Salomé the moment she steps onto the plane. She’s magnetic, quicksilver, and, best of all for incurable Francophile Courtney, French. So when Salomé invites Courtney to her mother’s town in northwestern France, Courtney doesn’t even have to think about it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut things are, almost immediately, surreal. Despite feeling right at home with Salomé, Courtney is confronted by a house outfitted with cameras and the dark, watchful presence of Salomé's mother. Courtney senses she should leave, but with Salomé she feels as if she’s rediscovered the \"French Courtney,\" an alternate version of herself who made a life in France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat is, until she starts to experience paralyzing nightmares in which strange voices intone \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDon’t open your eyes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e . . . and encounters Salomé’s charismatic stepfather, Marco, whose pyramid-scheme vitamin company offers a tempting segue into an even more insidious group obsessed with eternal life. Or is it an actual cult? And how much does Salomé really know? As a conspiracy unfurls, Courtney is torn between her loyalty to Salomé and what might be the story of a lifetime, the kind that could make a journalist’s career—if it doesn’t kill her first.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA modern reclamation of the original femme fatale whose story, until now, has been almost exclusively told by men, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSalomé\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a tantalizing, feminist tale exploring power, loyalty, connection, and the measures we’ll take to harness our deepest desires.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48173499121905,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/9757\/8890\/files\/81SHRkZD5VL._SL1500.jpg?v=1778802058","url":"https:\/\/shopsouthandpine.com\/products\/salome-hardcover-by-leslie-baird","provider":"South \u0026 Pine and Blue Apple Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}