THE COST OF LOVING YOU
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Last published Sat, Sep 27, 2025
A young woman's life is torn apart when her family dies in a sudden and mysterious tragedy that others dismiss as an accident. Refusing to believe the official story, she becomes convinced they were murdered and begins her own search for the truth with the help of her lawyer. But as secrets start to surface, danger closes in, and those who get too close to the answers-including her lawyer and even her closest friend-meet untimely and violent ends.
Haunted by loss and surrounded by shadows, she struggles between the weight of grief and the need for justice. Yet in the midst of confusion and betrayal, life leads her into unexpected encounters that will challenge everything she thought she knew about love, trust, and the hidden forces behind her family's fate.
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