{"product_id":"the-mason-list-s-d-hendrickson-9781505641790","title":"The Mason List","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An epic love. An epic hate. An epic story that would last a lifetime.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eToday, 8:15 p.m.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I hurt. I hurt so deeply, I felt the pain searing in my bones and jabbing like a hot poker into my heart. I knew nothing would make it better as the memories pulled from the crevices of my mind, detailing the bad and the ugly, filling my thoughts with regret as I slipped into the darkness. . . \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen I was eight, my mother was dying of cancer, my father lost his job, and the bank kicked us out of our house. I was forced to move to the strange town of Arlis, Texas where my father and I slept in our car in the hospital parking lot. Desperate and hopeless, we lived on fumes of our former life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThen one night, everything changed forever. A knock on the car window brought a family into my life that I only wanted to shut out. I hated charity and I hated the Masons. Well, except one. He made it impossible to hate him.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJess Mason had the biggest blue eyes and ornery smile of any boy I had ever seen. He was a ray of sunshine in my dark world. A boy full of adventure, dragging me across the meadow of Sprayberry Ranch; a beautiful Texas paradise full of horses and tree houses that got us into more trouble than anyone ever imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJess was my everything as a kid until we grew up and the rules changed. Instead of living happily ever after with a boy full of love. . . I destroyed it.\u003cbr\u003e - Alex Tanner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Author Note: The Mason List is a coming-of-age story that follows the life of Alex Tanner from the age of six to twenty-six. The novel crosses the genres of Young Adult and New Adult. It does contain some language and mild adult situations. The Mason List is a standalone, 118,940 word, full-length novel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e S. D. Hendrickson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1505641799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781505641790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.82d","brand":"S. D. Hendrickson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935328272639,"sku":"9781505641790","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1691f378-396e-4fe6-9fa2-0c14be11ef3e.jpg?v=1681419166","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-mason-list-s-d-hendrickson-9781505641790","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}