{"product_id":"first-impressions-may-2026","title":"First Impressions - May 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif';\"\u003eWe are very excited to announce our May theme: First Impressions!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis box includes a hardcover Young Adult fantasy title with STENCILED edges, a foil design on the cover, a signed bookplate, along with 3 to 6 other items.\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #1e1915; background: white;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #1e1915; background: white;\"\u003eA warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen set in historical Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find themselves irresistibly drawn together.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #1e1915;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003eAs the dutiful second-eldest daughter of a poor family, society would have a young woman believe that her only hope of a decent life is to marry well. But during a time of rampant government censorship and book banning, she instead works as an illegal book transcriber. It’s dangerous work, but she loves it\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #1e1915; background: white;\"\u003e―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #1e1915; background: white;\"\u003eespecially when she gets to transcribe the work of her favorite author.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #1e1915;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003eWhen her older sister becomes smitten with a wealthy young gentleman, she is roped into chaperoning them during their courtship. Which wouldn’t be so terrible... if it weren’t for the young man’s uptight and annoying best friend who also accompanies them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003eAs the only son of a noble, a young man has a lot expected of him. Wealth. Status. Respectability. Certainly not frivolous and often illicit activities such as reading fiction. But he loves to do something even more scandalous: writing. He’s kept his work secret from his father and friends, but with each passing day, the pressure of being his father’s son and the dispiriting actions of the government make him question the purpose of it all. The only thing keeping him going are the encouraging letters he receives from his transcriber. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003eWhen his best friend falls for a girl of lower social status, he finds himself forced to act as chaperone to the infatuated couple\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #1e1915; background: white;\"\u003e―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #1e1915; background: white;\"\u003ealong with the girl's younger sister, who is as irritating as she is judgmental. But as they spend more time together, they begin to suspect they may have judged each other too quickly...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; color: #1e1915; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif';\"\u003eBoxes expect to begin shipping late June.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #1e1915; background: white;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #1e1915; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: #1e1915; background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePurchase Options:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCurrently this box is only available to subscribers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Not a subscriber? Be sure to sign up on our waitlist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goldleafbookbox.com\/products\/gold-leaf-book-box-month-to-month-subscription\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gold Leaf Book Box","offers":[{"title":"Full Box","offer_id":47620870406338,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Book Only (no other items)","offer_id":47620870439106,"sku":null,"price":47.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/6350\/1250\/files\/theme_-_First_Impressions_-_Behind_Five_Willows_May_2026.jpg?v=1777907541","url":"https:\/\/www.goldleafbookbox.com\/products\/first-impressions-may-2026","provider":"Gold Leaf Book Box","version":"1.0","type":"link"}