{"product_id":"book-c3ab","title":"A Short Time to Stay Here","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe summer of 1917 should have been a summer  like any other. Stephen Robbins should have been doing the same thing  he'd been doing for years past. As a young boy he'd fled his life in a  secluded mountain cove and risen through the ranks to become the manager  of the South's finest resort, the elegant Mountain Park Hotel. By all  rights, he should have spent this summer as host to some of the  wealthiest gentry on the East Coast. Hans Ruser, German commodore of the  world's largest and most luxurious cruise liner, \u003ci\u003eDas Vaterland\u003c\/i\u003e, should have  been sailing yet again with his elite passengers to the far corners of  the world. And Anna Ulmann, captivating and beautiful, should have been  at home in her New York mansion planning yet another lavish dinner party  for her famous husband and his rich and powerful friends. She should  have idled away her spare time by taking perfectly staged photographic  portraits of the very same people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut war will change  everything that should have been in that summer of 1917―the US enters  WWI and the Mountain Park Hotel is pressed into service as an  internment camp for over two thousand German nationals, including Ruser and his  men. This sudden collision of lives and cultures in the small town of  Hot Springs, North Carolina, is both frightening and exhilarating. And  the unlikely alliance that forms between Hans Ruser and Stephen Robbins  will force each to decide just how far they are willing to go to keep  peace in the beautiful and isolated mountains. Feisty Anna Ulmann,  seeking to assert her independence in a male-dominated world,  mysteriously flees south to devote her life to documentary photography.  When she steps off the train at the Hot Springs depot one sultry summer  day, she could not have imagined the passionate journey that will result  when she matches wits with Stephen Robbins. Haunted by demons both past  and present, they will face heartbreaking tragedy. Yet together they  will discover the true meaning of imprisonment and escape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49300190134576,"sku":"BDc3ab","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49300190167344,"sku":"ZEc3ab","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49300190200112,"sku":"ZMc3ab","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/c3ab-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775816762","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-c3ab","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}