{"product_id":"learning-to-stay-francesca-emery-9798243365154","title":"Learning to Stay: Some Promises Break, Some Wounds Don't Disappear","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome promises are easy to make.\u003cbr\u003eStaying is harder.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen sixteen-year-old Maria Alvarez finds her mother dead in the house she's spent years surviving alone, the life she knows ends in a single, irreversible moment. With no one left to call, she is sent to live with the five brothers who once promised they would never leave her, and then did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey have money now. Power. A pristine white mansion built on control and certainty.\u003cbr\u003eBut none of it can erase the years Maria spent learning how to endure abandonment, silence, and fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForced back into a family that feels more like strangers than saviors, Maria must navigate grief, resentment, and the raw truth of broken trust. Her brothers, each carrying their own guilt and failures, are faced with a choice they avoided once before: to run from the damage, or to stay and face it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLearning to Stay\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful young adult novel about broken promises, complicated family bonds, and the slow, uneven process of healing. It's a story about finding strength after loss, and discovering that home isn't where you're taken, but where someone chooses to stand beside you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francesca Emery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798243365154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d","brand":"Francesca Emery","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171700023551,"sku":"9798243365154","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/learning-to-stay-francesca-emery-9798243365154","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}