Heartbeat To Numbness

Emotion Anesthesia Journey
The worst punishment isn't pain. It's nothing at all.

Growing up in the Agarwal household, Ivnat learned early that emotions are a liability. Her father, Amar, dictates their life through corporate memos and cold critique, while her mother, Nalini, weaponizes her love for golden-boy Aryan, using her daughter as the invisible scapegoat.

To survive the constant emotional warfare and her mother's crushing narcissism, Ivnat has mastered the art of shutting down. Her emotional world is a flatline-a necessary anesthesia to keep the toxic family drama from breaking her entirely.
But when an unexpected crisis forces her to look inward, she realizes the price of her numbness: she can no longer feel joy, love, or even sadness. She is a ghost in her own life.

The walls she built to keep the monsters out are now walls holding her prisoner.
Can a girl who has spent a lifetime running from emotion figure out how to reclaim her heart before she loses her soul forever?