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The Cost of Betrayal
Paperback
Series: The Cost
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 21 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Selene has learned how to survive by being careful.
Careful with her words.
Careful with her needs.
Careful with the kind of love she accepts.
From the outside, her life looks stable. She is educated, respected, and deeply committed to her work. But inside her relationship, control is subtle, relentless, and expertly disguised as concern. What begins as intimacy slowly becomes surveillance. What feels like devotion begins to cost her pieces of herself she cannot name-until the silence becomes unbearable.
As Selene navigates the quiet erosion of her autonomy, she is forced to confront a truth many women are taught to ignore: betrayal does not always come as violence. Sometimes it arrives wrapped in love, expectation, and the demand to disappear quietly.
The Cost of Betrayal is an intimate psychological novel about coercive control, emotional manipulation, and the courage it takes to name harm when there are no bruises to point to. This is not a story of rescue.
It is a story of recognition-and the slow, deliberate reclamation of self.
A standalone novel in The Cost Series.
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