A Wrestling Novel: Kayfabe

By Rett Young

Decker Holt has been wrestling for twenty-two years. Bar shows. VFW halls. Fairgrounds. He drives a van with a busted heater and bleeds for forty dollars and a handshake, and he wouldn't change a single mile of it. To Decker, professional wrestling isn't a performance - it's a covenant. A religion. The only honest thing left in a business that's been selling its soul one sponsor deal at a time.

Alex Thorne is one of the best wrestlers alive. ACW's national broadcast. Eleven years of sacrifice, technical mastery, and crowds that are supposed to be his - except lately, they've been chanting someone else's name. When a late-night rant from a rust belt bar goes viral with 8.2 million views, it ignites a feud that neither man planned and neither can walk away from. What starts as a social media war escalates into trespassing, a steel chair, a staple gun, and a contract signed in blood - until the only place left to settle it is inside an exploding barbed wire ring at the biggest show of the year.

A Wrestling Novel is the story of two men on a collision course with each other and with the truth about what they've given their lives to. About what it means to bleed for something real. About the cost of principle, the price of pride, and whether any of it was ever worth it.

It's a love letter to professional wrestling. And it doesn't pull its punches.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1105435563
• ISBN13: 9781105435560
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Lulu Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"