The Absolutes

A Novel

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Pub Date Jul 11 2023 | Archive Date Sep 05 2023

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Description

A moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric novel about a young woman’s affair with an Italian aristocrat that leaves her spiraling in the face of love, danger, and obsession.

When Nora, an anxious and withdrawn American teenager, is sent to live with relatives in Turin, she meets Nicola, the enigmatic son of the most powerful aristocratic family in Italy. They forge a sudden, powerful connection in a chairlift several hundred feet above the Alps, where Nicola, brimming with old-world wealth and secrets, eases Nora back from the verge of a panic attack. In an instant, Nora forgets the feelings she’s been harboring for her host sister since arriving in Italy, and a sharper, more reckless feeling takes hold: blind trust and insatiable desire for Nicola.

Years later in New York, when Nicola becomes enmeshed in a covert, high-stakes business venture at the company where Nora works, the two begin an affair. But Nora is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when unrelenting currents of obsession, control, and revenge intensify their passion and entangle her in a secret plot to overthrow Nicola’s corrupt father. Soon, she must decide for herself what makes a person truly evil and what she’s willing to excuse for a chance at total intimacy. 

Utterly seductive, fiercely intelligent, and achingly beautiful, The Absolutes is a revealing portrait of a relationship that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Molly Dektar has crafted a hypnotic, provocative, and profound study of desire.


A moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric novel about a young woman’s affair with an Italian aristocrat that leaves her spiraling in the face of love, danger, and obsession.

When Nora, an...


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ISBN 9780063282704
PRICE $30.00 (USD)
PAGES 352

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Heart pounding thriller that left me on the edge of my seat. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one. Definitely one of the best books this year.

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This was just the type of book I needed to escape the winter blues. I loved the NYC and Italy settings. The character of Nora was interesting to read about - heartbreaking at times but also intriguing. Dektar writes in a descriptive way and I was all for it. I'm giving it five stars. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC for the purpose of this review.

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