{"product_id":"the-emotion-collector-richard-french-9798999184665","title":"The Emotion Collector: Awakening","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn a dystopian future where emotions are harvested as hazardous waste, one woman's forbidden awakening becomes humanity's last hope.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSenior Collector Emma Thorne is the totalitarian Council's most precise weapon - an empath engineered to extract human feeling and dispose of it like contamination. She has never questioned her purpose. She has never felt love, grief, or joy of her own. She has never failed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil a four-year-old's pure love fractures her conditioning and changes everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen her collection field fails on a stranger immune to suppression, Emma is drawn into an underground resistance that reveals a government conspiracy decades in the making. Emotions aren't dangerous waste - they are living energy bound to planetary survival. And the Council's manufactured peace is slowly killing the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the betrayal that shatters Emma goes far deeper than politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHer mother is the architect of suppression.\u003c\/strong\u003e The woman who ordered Emma's father murdered. The woman who buried Emma's hidden past, her family secrets, and the truth about who Emma was chosen to become. Now her mother's final project - code-named Terminus - will permanently sever humanity's ability to feel. The ticking clock gives Emma hours, not days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo stop it, Emma must do what no one expects: not defeat her mother, but heal her. The mother-daughter conflict at the heart of the suppression system can only be broken by the one thing the system was built to destroy - an act of forbidden love so powerful it could restore the world's heart or consume Emma entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA dystopian science fiction novel about rebellion, sacrifice, and the courage to feel in a world that has forgotten how.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of The Giver, Delirium, Divergent, and Fahrenheit 451 - readers who crave a chosen one story where empathy is the ultimate weapon and hope survives against impossible odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTropes readers love: \u003c\/strong\u003e Dystopian rebellion - Forbidden romance - Chosen one - Empath powers - Mother-daughter conflict - Government conspiracy - Hidden identity - Heroic sacrifice - Found family - Race against time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrder now and discover what happens when the weapon learns to love.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard French\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798999184665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indie Pen Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d","brand":"Richard French","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852632469759,"sku":"9798999184665","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-emotion-collector-richard-french-9798999184665","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}