{"product_id":"love-in-a-dark-place-hardcover","title":"Love in a Dark Place - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Douglas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOctober 2017, north of Boston.\u003c\/b\u003e The body of a 60-year-old drug addict and former prostitute is pulled from the Shawsheen River. The only person questioned is a former lover from decades before, now an aging English professor at a nearby college. The death is ruled accidental.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAugust 1984, Atlantic City.\u003c\/b\u003e Ten casinos are taking in $5 million a day; the Bruno crime family, following a deadly mob war, is in control of the city's rackets: loan-sharking, protection, fight-fixing, high-end prostitution. Among its most prized assets is a 28-year-old, $1,000-a-night escort named Sarah--beautiful and spirited, but deeply guarded, tethered to her mob bosses by an unknowable secret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarry Hopper, a local news reporter known for his deep digs into the resort's darkest corners, comes to know her and is soon obsessed with the shadows she casts, then with Sarah herself. The two become lovers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the secrets don't yield. And the dangers are too great. The years pass. There is an ending. Then a new beginning--but in a very different world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Geoffrey Douglas is the author of five nonfiction books, all widely reviewed. One of them, \u003ci\u003eThe Game of Their Lives, \u003c\/i\u003ewas adapted for a 2005 movie of the same name. He has also worked as a reporter, columnist, editor and publisher, and is the author of many magazine pieces. For several years through the 1980s, he was editor of an investigative weekly in Atlantic City, an experience that provided much of the material for\u003ci\u003e Love in a Dark Place\u003c\/i\u003e, his first work of fiction. He lives today in New Hampshire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 242\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 9.13 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378951712870,"sku":"9798886453300","price":35.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/p5rWE-KdCz9798886453300.webp?v=1768912847","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/love-in-a-dark-place-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}