Love and Mayhem is a sweeping novel set against the backdrop of a world unraveling. As MAGA tightens its grip in the United States and financial instability ripples across Europe, a circle of artists, intellectuals, and exiles navigate the fault lines of personal and political life. At its center are Marco, an Italian milliner living in Paris recovering from personal loss, and Jake, a runway model with a fractured heart. Their unexpected connection-tender, erotic, charged-becomes an emotional anchor amidst the chaos. Love and Mayhem moves between Paris, New York, and Washington D.C., exploring the entanglement of love, loss, and civic responsibility in an age of disinformation and collapse. What begins as a love story becomes something larger: a meditation on the power of beauty, the endurance of art, and the quiet defiance of simply choosing to care in a world coming undone.