{"product_id":"resplendent-jennifer-long-9781998587209","title":"Resplendent","description":"\u003cp\u003eSerafina Silvano has always believed nothing worth having comes easy. As a respected bookseller and aspiring romance novelist, she is careful with her choices and even more careful with her heart. When the chance for a coveted publishing contract lands in her hands, it feels like the break she has worked toward for years. That is, until the publisher makes it clear the offer comes with conditions that could ruin her reputation before she even has one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrime boss Francesco Romano commands an empire balanced on silence and answers to no one. But he does need a woman at his side, one visible enough to steady rumors that he had an affair with a rival's wife and respectable enough to quiet speculation. He offers Serafina the role: public appearances on his arm, elegant dinners under watchful eyes, and a carefully managed illusion in exchange for financial support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerafina calls it an opportunity too valuable to refuse, and perhaps her only way forward. Francesco calls it a temporary expedient, a calculated move to shift suspicion away from where it belongs. It's mutually beneficial, nothing more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen his hand at her back becomes his hand in her hair. Polite smiles give way to lingering looks that last far past propriety. Formal dinners blur into locked doors and breathless whispers. What begins as performance turns possessive. She stops pretending she can keep her heart out of it. He stops pretending he can walk away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the time they realize they are no longer controlling the arrangement but caught inside it, leaving would be the safer choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey don't choose safety.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd neither does the shadow already drawing closer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Long,Noëlle Alexandria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1998587207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781998587209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vancouver Independent Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d","brand":"Jennifer Long","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447209341183,"sku":"9781998587209","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6446672e-dab9-4841-9c6e-47886961d421.jpg?v=1777229579","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/resplendent-jennifer-long-9781998587209","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}