{"product_id":"2940196600296","title":"File Four: The Scholar (The Gatekeeper's Files, #4)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey met in a library in 1932. They did not speak the truth until 1987. Some loves outlast everything — even the lives we build to survive them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanford University, 1932. June Walker arrives on scholarship from Alabama — composed, careful, and certain she knows exactly what this chapter of her life requires. Genevieve Hart is already there: Milwaukee-born, mathematically brilliant, and utterly unafraid of the space she takes up in the world. When they meet in Green Library on June's first day, something passes between them that neither can name — older than attraction, quieter than fate. Recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey will spend the next three years learning the shape of what they feel. They will also learn the cost of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscovered and separated, June and Gen do what their world demands: they marry good men, build respectable lives, raise families. They perform decency beautifully. And for more than fifty years, they do not speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirmingham, 1987. A widow named June Morrison finds an envelope in her mail. The handwriting is careful. The return address is familiar. And everything she has spent a lifetime keeping still begins to stir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFile Four: The Scholar\u003c\/em\u003e is not a story of defiance or destruction. It is something rarer — a story of restraint without surrender, of quiet courage, and of two women who finally, at the end of long and complicated lives, choose truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe brooch is still there. So is the recognition. So, it turns out, is the love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePart of The Gatekeeper's Files Series — a multi-lifetime reincarnation romance tracing two souls across centuries, genders, and the long arc toward belonging.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palm Tree Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48247021633777,"sku":"2940196600296","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940196600296_p0.jpg?v=1780568533","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940196600296","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}