The Perpetual Interest

In the opulent gated estates of Meridia, former painter Elena Voss finds her life chemically stolen by her husband Julian Croft, a pharmaceutical magnate who has engineered her diagnosis of cognitive incapacity to secure a lucrative Social Security disability ruling and control her family trust. As she drifts through a medically induced fog, Elena begins to piece together the treachery—a meticulously administered cocktail that renders her legally incompetent. To reclaim her existence, she must navigate a labyrinth of corrupted medical records, complicit caregivers, and a tribunal that sees only a broken woman. But every step toward freedom demands a piece of her soul, revealing that ascending the social ladder means pawning one’s autonomy, and the interest due is always a life.