{"id":163,"date":"2013-03-10T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/connect\/?p=163"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:26:17","slug":"a-heart-harkened-by-zehra-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/a-heart-harkened-by-zehra-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Heart Harkened&#8221; by Zehra Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"276\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.111.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.111.jpg 276w, https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.111-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3>Overview<\/h3>\n<p>Constance has been living in a house with her parents, but she is both unruly and unhappy. Her mother&#8217;s belated attempt to discipline the girl is counterproductive, and the consequences turn out to be unfathomable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Heart Harkened&#8221; is a dark, well-written tale about what happens once a young woman chooses to follow her heart, then sets out to survive in the wild. The forest where she grew up has so influenced Constance&#8217;s mentality and behavior, and now it offers her short-term solutions and horrific temptations.<\/p>\n<p>Published by Novelty Fiction on March 10, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>31 pages. Available in PDF format via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/zehra-ali\/a-heart-harkened\/ebook\/product-20740868.html\">Lulu<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Constance has been living in a house with her parents, but she is both unruly and unhappy. Her mother&#8217;s belated attempt to discipline the girl is counterproductive, and the consequences turn out to be unfathomable. &#8220;A Heart Harkened&#8221; is a dark, well-written tale about what happens once a young woman chooses to follow her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novelettes","tag-zehra-ali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}