Hard Times Binding:Paperback Lambda Literary award winner and

Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a steamy Sapphic rom-com about a quiet bookseller and a romance novel cover model who agree to a modern-day marriage-of-convenience

Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist—or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively

especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic

2022Ship Date: May 4

Hard Times Binding:Paperback Lambda Literary award winner andAn alternate cover edition can be found here. Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse Riding' circus, a