A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers, #1)

by Brigid Kemmerer

“I have cerebral palsy,” she says quietly. “Do you know what that is?”

I'm often asked why I chose to give Harper CP. When I was growing up, I was close friends with a girl named Erin. We grew up riding horses together. She has CP, but it never stopped her. When I was designing Harper’s character, I knew I wanted to look at the idea of curses, and how sometimes what seems like a curse to one person might not be a curse at all to someone else. I hadn’t read a book with a character with CP, and Erin agreed to help me springboard my research, and that was how Harper got her start.