{"product_id":"southern-exposure-bobby-ray-9798185374986","title":"Southern Exposure: A Nicki Jo Buckhart Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eShe can read a room better than anyone at MI6. She just never knew she'd have to.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNicki Jo Burkhart runs a catfish diner off a gravel road in Watts, Oklahoma - one dead fryer away from losing the only thing that was ever truly hers. Then a gray-eyed man in a good suit drives up from London to tell her that her late uncle Roy was never a traveling salesman. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe was a spy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd the strange recipe cards he left behind aren't recipes at all. They're the keys to a hidden network of \"plain people\" tucked into kitchens all over the world - a web only one person alive can read. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow a killer called the Wren wants those keys, and the only man offering to help - a buttoned-up MI6 officer named Sebastian Vane - is exactly the kind of trouble Nicki's mama warned her about. Armed with nothing but a blond ponytail, a bottomless drawl, and a lifetime of being underestimated, Nicki walks into the coldest, most dangerous rooms in London to find out who murdered her uncle... and discovers the deadliest weapon in the building might just be a fry cook nobody ever bothered to watch. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSouthern Exposure is the first novel in the Nicki Jo Burkhart series - a spy-thriller with banter on top and real stakes underneath, for readers who like their heroines sharp, their romance slow-burning, and their villains never once seeing them coming.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bobby Ray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798185374986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d","brand":"Bobby Ray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174188065023,"sku":"9798185374986","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/southern-exposure-bobby-ray-9798185374986","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}