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The Cost of Freedom
Paperback
Series: The Cost
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 7 2026
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Book Four of The Cost Series
Eden thought leaving would be the hardest part.
She was wrong.
After escaping a violent relationship, Eden finds herself living in the aftermath - a place where doors are locked twice, mirrors feel unfamiliar, and freedom doesn't feel like safety yet. The world tells her she's brave for leaving. It doesn't tell her what to do with the fear that followed her out.
Freedom, she learns, is not the absence of danger.
It is the daily work of reclaiming your body, your choices, and your sense of self.
As Eden navigates trauma, hypervigilance, and the quiet shame of survival, she is forced to confront a truth no one prepares you for: leaving does not end control - it only changes its shape. And the past does not loosen its grip simply because you've walked away.
With the steady presence of someone who offers protection without possession, Eden begins the slow, painful work of trusting herself again. Of learning that safety is not something granted by others, but something built from boundaries, clarity, and refusal.
The Cost of Freedom is a raw, unflinching novel about surviving intimate violence, the myth of closure, and the courage it takes to choose yourself again and again - even when freedom still feels terrifying.
This is not a story about rescue.
It is a story about what it really costs to stay gone.
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