Ruin and Flame: A Ritual Gospel of Romeo and Juliet

By MM Williams

What if Romeo and Juliet was never a love story-
but a field report from the mouth of hunger,
a gospel of salt, ruin, and mythic appetite?

In this raw and lyrical reimagining, Ruin and Flame is not a retelling.
It's a resurrection.

This book rewrites Shakespeare's most famous tragedy as a ritual codex-twelve poetic gospels that burn through betrayal, power, grief, lust, and the animal self beneath all romance.

Each chapter unfolds as a full-length poetic confession,
written in breath-wrung verses and cascading metaphors,
like a rooftop monologue whispered at the edge of a knife.
This is Romeo and Juliet as you've never seen it-
a communion of blood and honey,
a gospel sung in smoke and broken teeth.

There is no academic distance.
There are no moral lectures.
Only the voices of ruin, speaking in tongues of fire.

This book is for you if-You've ever loved someone like it was a knife.You believe myth is more honest than fact.You crave poetry that devours rather than soothes.You're still haunted by a name you once said aloud like a vow.
With a prologue, twelve ritual chapters, four forbidden bonus gospels, and an epilogue that still burns, Ruin and Flame invites you to kneel at the altar of what love ruins-and what it leaves behind smoldering.

This is not a tragedy.
This is the smoke still rising from a kiss that never learned how to end.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FK3178G5
• ISBN13: 9798294222796
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"