{"product_id":"the-preferred-ashley-maruzzo-9798176056907","title":"The Preferred","description":"\u003cp\u003eDenise has worked hospice for twenty years. She has watched hundreds of people die, and she knows exactly how it goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is the one families ask for. The one who stays when the room goes quiet. The one who handles it. Always, without being asked, without hesitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a pattern she cannot unsee begins to surface in the deaths she attends: patients who seem, impossibly, to be chosen. And the longer Denise watches, the harder it becomes to tell where her devotion to the dying ends and something else begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE PREFERRED is a work of literary horror about the cost of being needed. A slow, suffocating portrait of a woman confronting the shape of her own staying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of 71ST and The Eighth Morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ashley Maruzzo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798176056907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"Ashley Maruzzo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50780098822399,"sku":"9798176056907","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-preferred-ashley-maruzzo-9798176056907","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}