{"product_id":"the-blue-lagoon-agency-everett-cole-9798184875927","title":"The Blue Lagoon Agency: The Hidden War","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beach vacation. A hidden lagoon. A glamorous pageant. And a secret war for the freedom to remain human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenee Marlowe is a practical, warmhearted, fifty-ish woman who believes in lists, sunscreen, excellent coffee, real food, and keeping life beautifully organized. Her best friend Kitty Vale believes in purple lamé, emergency lip gloss, dramatic entrances, and turning fear into laughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey only wanted a beach getaway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a mysterious jet-ski route leads them through a hidden passage in the cliffs to the Blue Lagoon Agency - a secret organization devoted to protecting the ordinary beautiful things modern systems are learning to manipulate: appetite, attention, beauty, friendship, pleasure, memory, and choice itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe enemy is not trying to destroy humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wants something quieter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wants people alive, entertained, comforted, flattered, nudged, measured, and managed - until freedom still looks like choice, but no longer feels like life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Renee and Kitty are pulled into the glittering world of the Radiance Crown Pageant, they discover that a luxury beauty event is actually being used as a behavioral laboratory. The sponsors are not just selling lipstick, mocktails, wellness snacks, and glamour. They are testing whether desire can be synchronized while still feeling personal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the help of a mysterious mentor in lime-green lamé, a calm but irritatingly handsome agent, three recent college graduates, and an AI servant named Lumen, Renee and Kitty must expose a hidden system before the pageant crowd becomes the next successful test.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFunny, glamorous, fast-moving, faith-friendly, and full of heart, The Hidden War begins The Blue Lagoon Agency trilogy: a joyful PG-13 adventure series about real food, real laughter, real beauty, real courage, real friendship, and the wonderfully unpredictable human soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe point is not the lipstick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe point is the choosing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Everett Cole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798184875927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d","brand":"Everett Cole","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174087106815,"sku":"9798184875927","price":6.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-blue-lagoon-agency-everett-cole-9798184875927","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}