Decadence

Elise's life is quiet and fragile, and an unexpected text from her ex-girlfriend breaks that peace. Facing a turning point in her future, she gives in to the darker desires of her heart and heads, uncertain and unsteady, back toward a past she thought she had left behind. She returns to a town she has not seen in ten years and has to make choices that seem impossible. Decadence is a character-driven novel narrated from Elise's point of view, and her own mind is often her worst enemy. It looks at love in its different forms, from the burning anger of eros to the gentle kindness of agape and all that lies between them. The book is raw and painful, and it examines both the beauty and the hurt in human connection. It asks readers to stay with the haunting joy and the existential unease of being human.