{"product_id":"morbus","title":"Morbus","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor's Note\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen I first created Emmaline Marie as a character, I had no idea how deeply she would settle into my bones. She didn't arrive fully formed. She didn't come crashing into my mind with a plot or a neatly packaged destiny. She came quietly — a whisper, a flicker of curiosity; a girl sitting on a porch holding a childhood she didn't understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd yet, the more I wrote, the more she grew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe walked with me through the darkest corners of imagination and the softest ones too. She carried generational pain, but she also carried hope. She faced monsters that lived in houses, in memories, and in the spaces between breaths — but she never stopped reaching for the light on the other side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmmaline taught me that the bravest thing a person can do is simply keep living.\u003cbr\u003e\nShe taught me that fear doesn't always disappear, but we can learn to walk beside it.\u003cbr\u003e\nShe taught me that family can wound you and save you in the same breath, and that love — even the unexpected kind — can stitch you back together in ways you didn't know you needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting her story wasn't easy.\u003cbr\u003e\nAt times, I felt every tremor of her fear.\u003cbr\u003e\nEvery ounce of her grief.\u003cbr\u003e\nEvery step she took toward becoming her own kind of survivor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut I also felt her courage.\u003cbr\u003e\nHer stubbornness.\u003cbr\u003e\nHer warmth.\u003cbr\u003e\nHer humor.\u003cbr\u003e\nHer aching desire to understand where she came from and who she was allowed to become.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd in that journey, she became more than a character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe became a reminder that even broken pieces can be rearranged into something beautiful — and that sometimes the pieces are stronger for having cracked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo anyone who has ever felt haunted by their past…\u003cbr\u003e\nTo anyone who has ever carried loneliness like a second heartbeat…\u003cbr\u003e\nTo anyone who has ever wanted to run but stayed anyway…\u003cbr\u003e\nThis story is for you.\u003cbr\u003e\nEmmaline is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThank you for walking along this road with her.\u003cbr\u003e\nThank you for caring about her survival.\u003cbr\u003e\nThank you for letting her take up space in your heart the way she did in mine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe may have crawled out of darkness, but she didn't do it alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou were there.\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd that matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf her journey taught me anything, it's this:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLight does not erase darkness —\u003cbr\u003e\nbut it absolutely outshines it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd so will you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Monica Marie Howart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMorbus is a story of inherited darkness, the resilience of the forgotten, and a young woman who learns that sometimes the only way out… is through the fire.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46804323991762,"sku":"c5cac03e-df1c-3db9-81cd-8a1ea109daae","price":6.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_ad674fd3-d5a2-420f-8aea-a231c5c9b059.jpg?v=1773716483","url":"https:\/\/iandigo.com\/products\/morbus","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}