{ "item_title" : "The Princess Inside the Glass Feather", "item_author" : [" Martin Restelle "], "item_description" : "Eleanor Fairchild has spent centuries trapped inside an alchemical glass body, her consciousness preserved as a crystalline swan beneath the motionless waters of the Dead Lake. When the hunter Dominic Vaughn carries her from the lake to his cabin and places her near the hearth, heat breaks the ancient spell. Her glass shell melts away and she awakens as a fragile human woman, scarred with silver seams and almost no memory of her former life.At first Eleanor believes Dominic is her protector. He feeds her, shelters her, and treats her restored flesh with fearful care. But fragments of memory return, and a scavenger named Jared reveals the truth. Dominic is not a simple huntsman. He is King Dominic Vaughn, the conqueror who invaded the Fairchild kingdom, killed Eleanor's father on the palace steps, and destroyed her court.Eleanor remembers the night her mother, Queen Cassandra, transformed the royal cistern with forbidden alchemy. To keep her daughter from being violated or killed by the invading army, Cassandra forced an alchemical draught down Eleanor's throat, turning her into a flawless glass ornament. The resulting magical flood engulfed the kingdom and froze its people beneath the Dead Lake. Dominic survived the catastrophe, carried Eleanor away, and spent years caring for the relic of the kingdom he had destroyed.Eleanor's restoration awakens more than memory. The drowned dead begin to stir, and an obsidian keystone can kill Dominic on the Fairchild throne and transform the imprisoned dead into an immortal army against his empire. The vengeful spirit of Eleanor's cousin Juliette and thousands of drowned souls urge Eleanor to complete the ritual.Eleanor refuses. She recognizes that Cassandra's preservation was not simply an act of maternal love but also the construction of a weapon, and that killing Dominic would make her the final instrument of her mother's vengeance. Dominic, broken by guilt, offers his throat and begs for the death he believes he deserves. Eleanor denies him that easy absolution.Instead, she breaks the keystone and severs the machinery binding the dead to the lake. The alchemical waters collapse into the earth, the petrified landscape begins to recover, and the trapped spirits are released from their centuries of stasis. Eleanor's supernatural scars fade into ordinary silver marks, leaving her fully mortal for the first time since childhood.She walks away from Dominic and the Fairchild ruins. She refuses both the crown and the role of executioner, choosing a life that can age, heal, and end naturally. Behind her, the liberated dead rise from the dried lake as silent salt-and-silt figures and march toward the Usurper's fortress to settle their own ancient debt.Eleanor does not command them. She leaves the dead to their reckoning and enters the eastern valleys alone. The princess preserved as a glass feather finally becomes a living woman, no longer an ornament, weapon, or ghost of a destroyed kingdom.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/285/9798182851985_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.99", "online_price" : "15.99", "our_price" : "15.99", "club_price" : "15.99", "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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