{"product_id":"the-cold-house-michael-jonathan-hyde-9798181444249","title":"The Cold House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a world that has cured itself of love, feeling is a sickness - and kindness is how they take it from you.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElara has never once been undone by an emotion. No one she knows has. For generations, the capacity to love, to grieve, to ache for another person has been quietly bred and treated out of humanity - gently, reasonably, for everyone's own good. What little feeling remains is an illness, and the people who still carry it are not punished. They are \u003ci\u003enoticed.\u003c\/i\u003e They are cared for. And, one by one, they are made easier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen her father dies and leaves her his cold, orderly house, Elara expects to settle his affairs and feel nothing - the way she has felt nothing her whole life. But beneath the house is a room he never allowed her to enter. A warm room, hidden from a world gone cold: walls of photographs of people touching, hundreds of letters from strangers, and a recording in her father's voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd slowly, terribly, against everything she was raised to be, Elara begins to wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat she finds in that room will cost her more than she can imagine - because in this watchful, well-meaning world, there is no escape from care, and no safe place for the ones who still feel. There is only the warmth itself, and the people who hold it in secret, for as long as they are allowed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cold House\u003c\/i\u003e is a spare, haunting novella about grief, awakening, and the most dangerous thing a person can still do in a world that has forgotten how: love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Jonathan Hyde\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181444249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.28d","brand":"Michael Jonathan Hyde","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173684257023,"sku":"9798181444249","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cold-house-michael-jonathan-hyde-9798181444249","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}