After leaving the Army, Desmond Bell wants a quieter future-architecture school, marriage, and a life he can finally control. Then Zaria, the woman who has known him since childhood, pulls him into a hidden world of surveillance, false identities, and dangerous assignments. What begins as loyalty becomes love, and love becomes something neither of them can separate from the violence surrounding them.
As Desmond learns Zaria's world, every new skill costs him another piece of the life he thought he wanted. WHAT LOVE COST is a dark romantic crime thriller about obsession, loyalty, betrayal, and what happens when loving someone changes the person you become.