{"product_id":"book-fta7","title":"The Ticking Heart","description":" \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart modern fable, part detective novel, a journey through grief in the imaginary world of Metaphoria.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne cold winter night, Charlie shares a cab with a stranger in a purple hat. As they talk, a cloud of purple smoke overwhelms him and he wakes up to find himself behind the only desk in the Epiphany Detective Agency. Charlie, as it turns out, is trapped in Metaphoria, an otherworldly place that reality has forgotten, a place where everything means something else. His first client is Shirley Miller, who insists on hiring Charlie to find her husband’s missing heart. In fact, she’s so insistent that she replaces Charlie’s heart with a bomb. He has twenty-four hours to find Twiggy Miller’s heart — and its meaning — or his own will explode.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTender and brutal, optimistic and despairing, this modern fable by the author of the cult hit \u003ci\u003eAll My Friends Are Superheroes\u003c\/i\u003e takes a fresh look at what it means to fall into, and out of, love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49359881208112,"sku":"BDfta7","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/201344-fta7-Square.jpg?v=1734473374","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-fta7","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}