{"product_id":"2940183476378","title":"Blackthorn: An Audit","description":"\u003cp\u003eValerius Drakenfeld has survived nearly six centuries, several wars, one catastrophic betrayal, and the indignity of working in vampire customer service.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe may not survive an audit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a certified raven delivers notice from the Bureau of Eternal Compliance, Valerius and the peculiar household he has assembled at Blackthorn are given twenty-one days to prepare for official review. Every undead resident, territorial claim, financial arrangement, and supernatural irregularity must be properly documented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost none of it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZach, the household's youngest vampire, may not legally exist. Ambrose remembers nine hundred years of history but rarely the century presently required. The House has opinions, grudges, and a regrettable tendency to weaponize the shrubbery. And somewhere inside the Bureau, someone has been waiting a very long time for Valerius's records to fail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir only hope is Amelia Harker: a mortal paralegal armed with a pencil, an exacting respect for procedure, and the dangerous belief that every account can be reconciled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as missing records surface and old betrayals acquire new signatures, Amelia discovers that this is no ordinary audit. Someone intends to erase Blackthorn-and everyone who belongs to it-from existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vampires have secrets.\u003cbr\u003eThe Bureau has procedures.\u003cbr\u003eAmelia has a checklist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGod help the Bureau.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Briar Gate Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48534060466417,"sku":"2940183476378","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940183476378_p0.jpg?v=1786367019","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940183476378","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}