{"product_id":"shattered-crowns-chelsey-morgan-9798904176938","title":"Shattered Crowns: Between Two Fires: The Weight of Beautiful Ruins","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe survived her mother's chaos. She survived a marriage to a man who raised his hands and a landlord who put her out for it. She packed her five children into her mother's one-bedroom apartment and kept going, because that is what she does - she keeps going, because stopping has never been a luxury she could afford.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe thought she had finally learned the difference between love and a convincing imitation of it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe was wrong.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Celeste Monroe matches with a charming Haitian man named Édouard Pierre on a late-August night, something inside her - long denied, long compressed - stirs back to life. He calls every single morning. He remembers every detail. He drives to her on weekends. For two and a half years, Celeste builds a life around a man who is secretly building a different life entirely - with multiple women, a series of carefully managed lies, and a best friend named Jimmy whose place in Édouard's life she will spend years trying to understand.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSHATTERED CROWNS is the unflinching, intimate, and ultimately triumphant first chapter of Celeste's story - a woman who must excavate the wreckage of a fraudulent love affair, survive a near-fatal car accident that strips away her last illusions, lose her job in the same brutal season, and answer the question she has been running from her entire life: can she trust herself to choose?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor every woman who has ever loved someone who didn't exist. For every daughter still trying to earn a mother's grace. For every single mother who made dinner while her world was on fire and still got every child to bed on time.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis story is yours.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chelsey Morgan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798904176938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Isbndirect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.11d","brand":"Chelsey Morgan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001681453311,"sku":"9798904176938","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shattered-crowns-chelsey-morgan-9798904176938","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}