{"product_id":"breakwater-k-s-valentina-9798255160785","title":"Breakwater","description":"\u003cp\u003eI paid the tithe. I pressed my hand to the bark at the last hard frost and the binding renewed and the hollow went quiet and I thought: this is what it feels like when it works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt worked. Just not enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe covenant renewed at its original terms - terms written in 1847 for something that has spent 178 years growing. The boundary holds. The lures are weaker. The thing below the hollow has a name now, and I didn't want to learn it, and that's been the pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one in the house knows something he hasn't told me. I can feel it in the shape of what he doesn't say. The one at the boundary is still here - not because he has to be, not anymore. The one made of light flickers in patterns I'm starting to read. I am keeping notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one from the deep water stopped being careful with me. What I didn't know is that the water he came from runs in two directions, and I haven't mapped the second one yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe parish is talking. Conversations stop when I walk into the diner. I am holding a line this town can't see and being blamed for what leaked through before I held it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lid is too small for the jar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBreakwater\u003c\/i\u003e is a gothic Southern why-choose monster romance - Book 2 of the Vauclain Monsters series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e K. S. Valentina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798255160785\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.65d","brand":"K. S. Valentina","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48743170900223,"sku":"9798255160785","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/breakwater-k-s-valentina-9798255160785","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}