{"title":"2027 Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"kill-me-with-fire-hardcover","title":"Kill Me with Fire (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHIS IS A PRE-ORDER AND WILL NOT SHIP UNTIL APRIL 2027. Any other items ordered with pre-order items will not ship until every item in the order is available.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease Date: April 27, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardcover Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e~384 Pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6\" x 9\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffset-printed Hardcover with Full-Color Dust Jacket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand-signed bookplate included (while supplies last)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo women fall victim to a dormant curse, transforming them into feral witches. One resists, the other... doesn't.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlice is a solitary accountant with no life and one friend. Jennet is a damn-the-consequences enigma. The two are nothing alike. Until a chance encounter at a foraging outing gives them something in common: an onslaught of rapid aging and a hunger for infants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving gone their separate ways, Alice copes by finding a number of questionable, but less morally objectionable approaches to stave off the witch growing within. Jennet's methods are decidedly more...self-serving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite Alice's best efforts, her path keeps crossing with Jennet's, before coming to a head in \"this decade's most visceral examination of the witch\" (Wendy N. 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