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The Decayed Good is a philosophical novel about a man who begins to realize that the person he thought he was may have been nothing more than a collection of beliefs, fears, and expectations.

Lev Ravenwood has spent his life trying to understand what makes a person good.

But the more he questions morality, the more unstable everything becomes.

What starts as a search for truth turns into something much darker.

Lev begins questioning whether morality actually comes from within us, or whether we only behave because we are afraid of consequences. He questions God, he questions human nature, he questions suffering and whether meaning is something we discover or something we desperately invent because the alternative is unbearable.

And eventually, he has to confront the most uncomfortable question of all:

If you removed every rule, every expectation, every punishment, every reward, and every person watching you... who would you become?

That is the heart of The Decayed Good.

It isn't a story about a perfect protagonist overcoming his flaws.

It's about watching someone pick apart his own understanding of morality until he can no longer tell whether he is becoming free or simply falling apart.

The book is dark, introspective, and heavily philosophical. It's about the kind of questions that don't disappear when you close the book.

Questions about whether goodness is real.

Whether suffering has a purpose.

Whether people can truly change.

Whether God is necessary for morality.

And whether a life without predetermined meaning is terrifying...or liberating.

I wrote The Decayed Good because I wanted to create the kind of book that doesn't give you a neat answer at the end.

I wanted it to leave something behind a thought,a doubt or a question you suddenly find yourself thinking about days later.

So if you like philosophical fiction, psychological darkness, existentialism, morally complicated characters, or stories that make you question your own beliefs, you might want to give it a chance.

The Decayed Good is available on Amazon.

You can read it for the story.

Or you can read it to argue with Lev.

Either way, I hope you close the final page a slightly different person than when you opened the first. Here's the link: The Decayed Good