{"product_id":"protogonos-amy-wertz-9798258042705","title":"Protogonos: The Original Cupid","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichelle Kessler has built her career on connecting the unconnectable. An award-winning investigative journalist, she trusts patterns, not instincts-until a single anomaly refuses to let go. Across years of interviews with powerful figures-a disgraced senator, a cult leader, a tech billionaire-she uncovers the same impossible detail: each of them describes a private encounter with someone they cannot remember. Not a mentor. Not a meeting. A presence. Afterward, everything changes. People listen differently. Doors open. Influence follows. When Michelle searches her archives, she finds more. Seventeen cases. No connection-except the same language, the same transformation, the same absence where a face should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs her investigation deepens, the pattern begins to push back. Sources vanish. Memories fracture. And those who speak of the encounter grow afraid-not of what they experienced, but of something still watching. Guided by a reclusive academic who has seen this before, Michelle is drawn into a hidden architecture beneath power itself-one that reaches back to the earliest human myths of Eros, not as the god of love, but as something far older: a force that selects, that binds, that makes the world want. But the closer Michelle gets to the truth, the more she feels it-subtle at first, then undeniable. People are starting to respond to her differently. And the most terrifying realization of all begins to take shape: she isn't just investigating the pattern. She's becoming part of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePROTOGONOS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary horror novel about desire as a force, influence as a system, and the cost of being seen in a world where power isn't earned-it's assigned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Annihilation, The Fisherman, and House of Leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amy Wertz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798258042705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d","brand":"Amy Wertz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665477505279,"sku":"9798258042705","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/protogonos-amy-wertz-9798258042705","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}