{"product_id":"die-upon-a-kiss","title":"Die Upon A Kiss","description":"Description for DIE UPON A KISS by Barbara Hambly: \u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nIn February 1835, the cold New Orleans streets are alight with masked Mardi Gras revelers as the American Theater's impresario, Lorenzo Belaggio, brings a magnificent yet controversial operatic version of Othello to town. But it's pitch-black in the alley where free man of color Benjamin January hears a slurred whisper, spies the flash of a knife, and is himself wounded as he rescues Belaggio from a vicious attack. Could competition for audiences -- or for Belagio's [sic] affections -- provoke such violent skulduggery? Or is Shakespeare's tragic tale, with its spectacle of a black man's passion for a white beauty, one that some Creole citizen -- or American parvenu -- would do anything to keep off the stage? The soaring music will lead January into a tangle of love, hate, and greed more treacherous than any onstage drama, as he must discover who is responsible...and who will Die Upon a Kiss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nThis is #5 in A Benjamin January Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connies Bookshelf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42955012571352,"sku":"9780553581652","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/9099\/4904\/products\/DieUponAKiss.jpg?v=1655003756","url":"https:\/\/conniesbookshelf.com\/products\/die-upon-a-kiss","provider":"Connies Bookshelf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}