Cycle of a Rose

Two broken souls-one drowning in bourbon, the other in secrets-collide in a church basement, igniting a spiral of addiction, obsession, and redemption neither can escape. Wayne's life has been reduced to bourbon bottles and regret. Once a gifted body-man, he now drifts between blackout and self-loathing, haunted by the woman who stopped loving him and the father who never did. Ordered to attend recovery meetings to keep his job, Wayne expects nothing more than stale coffee and humiliation-until Rose walks in. She's younger, unreadable behind oversized sunglasses, and entirely out of place among the circle of wrecked souls. Yet she sees through Wayne's bitterness and pain, awakening a dangerous hope he thought long dead. As the meetings continue, their lives entwine in unexpected and destructive ways, forcing both to confront what they've lost-and what still might be salvaged. Cycle of a Rose is a raw, compassionate descent into the twin addictions of love and escape, where the only salvation may lie in facing the truth you fear most.