{"product_id":"the-first-treaty-prequel-paperback","title":"The First Treaty (Prequel) — Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003e1964. Two families at war. A bride handed across the river to end it — and nobody told her what was sewn into the house she was marrying.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCecile Batiste is twenty years old when the old women of the Ninth Ward arrange her marriage to Vernon Deveraux — a treaty signed in white, in a church so full the ushers stop seating people and start standing them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe decides to be excellent. She learns the house. She falls, sideways and against the plan, into a marriage that works. And in her ninth month she finds the thing sewn into the family's books — a modest, fixed, unexplained payment, older than the business itself, riding a morning ferry to a town nobody watches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe has been dead for thirty-two years when a ninety-one-year-old woman finally tells the whole story to a twenty-two-year-old undertaker who is about to be handed across the water herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE FIRST TREATY\u003c\/i\u003e is the prequel to ALL SAINTS — the complete ten-book dark mafia romance. A novella you read in an evening, and it changes how you read everything that comes after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/b\u003e 6 × 9 inches, cream paper, 60 pages, matte cover. For adult readers; contains depictions of grief and an off-page death. Choose Standard, or Signed by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThen start the saga:\u003c\/b\u003e Book One is \u003ci\u003eThe Treaty\u003c\/i\u003e. November 1997. The second treaty. This time, somebody told the girl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tiernan Crow","offers":[{"title":"Standard","offer_id":52492246810914,"sku":"AS-PQ-PB-STD","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Signed","offer_id":52492246843682,"sku":"AS-PQ-PB-SGN","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1003\/9535\/2354\/files\/AS-sq-Prequel.jpg?v=1788659403","url":"https:\/\/www.tiernancrow.com\/products\/the-first-treaty-prequel-paperback","provider":"House Of Crow","version":"1.0","type":"link"}