{"product_id":"the-prodigal-hour-will-entrekin-9780615499734","title":"The Prodigal Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\"The Prodigal Hour, the audacious, genre-bending novel by Will Entrekin, is a Rubik's Cube of delights. Equal parts sci-fi, thriller, coming-of-age, and love story, the novel hurtles readers along Chance Sowin's intriguingly unpredictable journey--forward, backward, and inward. A thrilling head rush of a book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Elizabeth Eslami, author of \u003ci\u003eBone Worship: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Chance Sowin hoped only for a new beginning.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn October 31, 2001, six weeks after escaping the World Trade Center attacks, Chance Sowin moves back home, hoping for familiarity and security. Instead, he interrupts a burglary as his father, Dennis, is shot and killed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a homicide investigation escalates when the Joint Terrorism Task Force arrrives. Where he hoped for solutions, Chance finds only more questions: who killed his father, and why? Was his father-a physicist at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study-working on dangerous research? Why did Dennis build a secret laboratory in his basement?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChance might not know the answers, but Cassie Lackesis, Dennis' research assistant, thinks she does. She isn't certain that Dennis discovered a way to time travel, but she knows who told her: Chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether with Cassie, Chance will go on a journey across time and space that will challenge his every notion of ideas like \"right\" and \"good.\" One young man's desire to make a difference will become, instead, a race against time as he tries to prevent forces he could never understand from not just destroying the universe but rendering it nonexistent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen every action has a reaction, every force its counter, Chance will find that the truest measure of his character is not what he wants but what he will do when the prodigal hour returns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Will Entrekin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0615499732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780615499734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Exciting Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d","brand":"Will Entrekin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48799361827071,"sku":"9780615499734","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-prodigal-hour-will-entrekin-9780615499734","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}