What Love Cost Me

She survived a childhood that tried to break her. She built a life she swore nobody would ever take from her again.Ja’Liyah Monroe finally finds stability, and a love that feels real… until the past starts creeping closer than she ever expected. In Eastmore, love is powerful, loyalty is everything, and danger doesn’t always come from where you think it will.Zaire Duvernay knows loss better than most, but something about Ja’Liyah makes him want to believe in a future again. Together they’re trying to build something solid in a world that keeps testing how much they can survive.But in Blackwood City and Eastmore, secrets don’t stay buried… and sometimes loving someone means risking everything.What Love Cost MeAn emotional urban fiction story about love, trauma, survival, and the price of second chances. Read more