{"product_id":"book-1bf1","title":"LOVE UPON KNIVES.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSt. Petersburg, 1795.\u003c\/strong\u003e The glittering capital of Catherine the Great-a city of palatial wealth and abject poverty, where a single misstep can cost a life and a single glance can change a destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatya is nineteen years old, a floor-washer in the Winter Palace. Orphaned, illiterate, with nothing but her mother's river-pearl necklace and hands raw from lye, she expects nothing from life but more of the same: endless floors, endless servitude, endless invisibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil the night a fortune-teller comes to the servants' hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cards speak of a tower struck by lightning, a moon shrouded in deceit, and two lovers destined to walk on knives. Katya laughs-until she looks up and sees him standing in the doorway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaron Karl von Kleist is the Prussian envoy to the Russian court: brilliant, cultured, married to a woman he does not love. He has spent twenty years building a career, a reputation, a life of cold calculation. He has never once looked at a servant as anything but furniture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when his eyes meet Katya's across a candlelit room, something cracks inside him. Something he cannot name. Something he cannot control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a stolen glance becomes a secret meeting in a moonlit garden. A kiss on a callused hand becomes a duel in a snow-covered forest. A forbidden love becomes a desperate flight across borders-and a choice that will cost them everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in a world where nobles scheme and empresses watch, where Counts hunger for revenge and the Secret Chancellery hunts for spies, can a German baron and a Russian peasant build a life together? Can love survive the weight of empire?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the timeless themes of passion, sacrifice, and the eternal power of the human heart, \u003cem\u003eLove Upon Knives\u003c\/em\u003e is a sweeping historical romance that asks the oldest question of all:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow far would you go for the one you love?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":51195040170288,"sku":"BD1bf1","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1bf1-Square-cover.jpg?v=1774299905","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1bf1","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}