{"title":"The Crossroads","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-crossroads","title":"The Crossroads","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Starts as a mystery. Know that before anything else.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAt the crossroads of Aldenmere, the ancient bull that sealed the valley for generations is found beheaded. Beside its body lies eighteen-year-old Lark, her chest opened, her heart taken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSixty years later, a scribe on his way to the castle libraries hears the story of what came to pass that day and in the months that followed. Some of it is true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRook has nothing but a bloodstained handkerchief torn from her dead twin sister's hand, and the cold certainty that it is the key to finding her killer. Her hunt draws her through a kingdom on the edge of war, toward the Witch's Wood, where girls have been vanishing and something ancient and patient has been waiting for exactly this kind of grief to come walking through the trees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn the castle to the north, Queen Sera has survived thirty-eight years of a vicious king by learning one thing: the ones who survive don't flinch. She has stayed—and endured—for her son. But when he walks into the Witch's Wood calling for a witch and comes back wrong, everything she has survived to protect is suddenly beyond her reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe witch is walking. The king is sharpening something. And Rook and Sera may be all that stands between Aldenmere and what is coming.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Omnigrapher Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52355068199224,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/3950\/0856\/files\/CoverartCrossroads.jpg?v=1779376743"}],"url":"https:\/\/omnigrapher.press\/collections\/the-crossroads.oembed","provider":"The Omnigrapher Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}