The Cost of Loving You

By Keyuni Jackson

Janaye Fairfax has built her life on precision.

A self-made real estate mogul, she knows how to negotiate power, read rooms, and protect what she's earned. Love, however, has always required a different kind of vigilance-one she's never trusted enough to afford.

When Nico Costa enters her world, he brings more than attraction. He brings history, inheritance, and a family legacy built on control and expectation. Their connection is immediate, but not simple. Every step closer demands a reckoning with loyalty, autonomy, and the unspoken rules that govern who gets to remain whole.

As outside pressures mount and old power structures push back, Janaye is forced to confront a truth she's long avoided: intimacy does not weaken authority-but it does demand alignment.

The Cost of Loving You is a story about power without cruelty, love without erasure, and the quiet strength it takes to choose connection without surrendering self.

A standalone novel in The Cost Series.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GK1P92GG
• ISBN13: 9798245787350
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"