{ "item_title" : "Hand to Wire", "item_author" : [" Shebin Koshy "], "item_description" : "In the autumn of 1885, the only telegraph operator in the remote silver town of Telluride, Colorado begins a secret correspondence with the senior operator at the Denver Western Union office - four hundred miles east as the wire runs, a man she has never seen, known only by his call sign. Nora Halstead is twenty-six years old, alone, and certain that the part of her life that included love is finished. James Calloway is thirty, supporting a younger brother in Denver, and has not said the words to a woman in five years. They have never met. They will not meet for two hundred and forty-seven nights. Across the late-evening lines of the Western Union wire, they fall slowly in love - by Morse code, by careful written letters, by the small recognized rhythm of each other's keying. When a spring blizzard closes the mountain pass between them on the eve of their first meeting, they make a decision that turns a real historical moment from 1876 - the first documented wedding ever performed by telegraph - into the most public private wedding of their generation, witnessed by four hundred operators across the western states. Hand to Wire is a quiet, slow-burn historical romance about loneliness and trust, about the silence between the dashes, and about the long-overdue arrival of the love we stopped believing in. For readers of: historical romance set in the American West, slow-burn epistolary love stories, Sarah Penner, Hazel Gaynor, and the Belle Epoque era. Inspired by the real 1876 wire wedding of William Storey and Clara Choate, the personal history of Samuel F. B. Morse, and the 1880 telegraph-romance novel Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer. All named characters in this novel are entirely fictional. Approximately 58,000 words.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/714/9798187148004_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "11.99", "online_price" : "11.99", "our_price" : "11.99", "club_price" : "11.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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