“Drowning In Guilt”

An Adult Psychological Novel

Guilt has shaped Professor Federica Hoffman’s life for years—quietly, relentlessly. When a letter from a Philadelphia law firm reopens wounds she believed long buried, it forces her to confront a past she has spent a lifetime avoiding.

A year later, an enigmatic advertisement appears in the Sunday Times: Time for a Change. Linked to a simple QR code, it draws five strangers together—each carrying a private burden of guilt, each hoping that redemption might still be possible.

Aboard the yacht Roma, what begins as an escape becomes a reckoning. As the voyage unfolds, hidden truths surface, relationships strain, and the weight of unresolved choices grows impossible to ignore.

But not everyone drawn to the journey seeks absolution. For one unseen outsider, the gathering is an opportunity for profit and revenge—and as greed tightens its grip, the fragile bonds between the five are pushed toward breaking point.

Drowning in Guilt is a psychologically driven novel about moral consequence, human connection, and what happens when the past refuses to stay buried.