Cycle of a Rose by Matt Anderson & J. Harris
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They met in the basement of a church that smelled of coffee and confession. He was there to save himself from the bottle; she was there to remember what it felt like to be human. In that room of broken promises, something ancient stirred—something that understood addiction better than any soul alive.
Wayne is drowning—his job on the line, his heart in pieces, his bourbon the only thing keeping him afloat. When he’s pushed into attending recovery meetings, he expects bad coffee and worse advice, not Rose.
She’s magnetic, unsettlingly calm, a woman who speaks of hunger as if it’s holy. Wayne can’t explain the pull she has on him, or the sense that something vast and dangerous moves beneath her stillness.
From the bleak winters of upstate New York to the fevered nights of 1920s New Orleans, Cycle of a Rose traces the tangled path of a woman cursed with a craving she cannot quell, and the broken lives drawn into her orbit.
Lyrical and haunting, it’s a story of need and consequence—of how far we’ll go to feed what we can’t live without.