The Cost of Knowing

Truth comes at a cost.

Beneath New York City, three brutal murders tear open a secret war that has survived for centuries.

Detective Alexi Shard knows the crime scene isn't the work of humans. The blood left behind tells a story that whispers of predators hidden in plain sight. When her investigation crosses paths with Maxx DeSilva, a powerful and elusive figure with ties to the city's oldest occult institutions, Alexi is forced to confront a truth most people never see, and never survive knowing.

Maxx is more than just a corporate titan. He is an immortal werewolf, governed by ancient laws, committed to protecting a secret world that must stay hidden at all costs-even when it starts to turn against his own bloodline: his vampire wife, Sofia, and their hybrid daughter, Seraphine.

When a subway killing exposes fractures in the secret world of vampires and werewolves, Maxx must confront his estranged daughter Aiyana, the ruthless assassin grooming her, and councils eager to make his family a scapegoat. As a mortal detective crosses into immortal politics, every choice threatens to shatter the code that keeps humanity safe and the family holding it together.

Loyalty will be tested. Bloodlines exposed. And once the truth is revealed, there is no returning to the dark.

The Cost of Knowing is a dark urban fantasy about secrecy, power, and the price of protecting those you love-set in a world where monsters are real, and the most dangerous truths are the ones we choose to see.

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