The choice you make is the future you create.
Climate-driven plagues haunt humanity, and itâs Regional Director Zuri Hill-Grayâs job to keep the clean-energy grid running.
Zuri has the perfect lifeâa beautiful home on the Hillstead, a loving family, and a powerful job keeping the LA Basinâs grid humming. If only she didnât see the ghost of her dead twin in the mirror. Her grief-counselor husband understands too much, her Aunties Cora and Vivian smother her to excess, and her mother canât look at her daughter without seeing the half thatâs missing. Zuri canât begin to face her sisterâs little daughterâto Ruby, Zuri is the ghost.
Which is why sheâs running away to work, again, on the anniversary of her sisterâs death.
Then a power engineer walks into Zuriâs office and claims someone is stealing energy from Power Island Oneâand theyâve tried to kill her to cover it up. The more Zuri digs, the more itâs clear someoneâs been tinkering in the shut-down fusion labs. Theyâre going to dangerous lengths to hide it, and itâs been happening right under her nose. Which is how Regional Directors lose their jobs.
Zuriâs already lost her better halfâshe canât afford to lose this, too.
You Knew the Price is the second of four tightly-connected novels in a new hopepunk series. Itâs about our future, how society lives on invisible things, like electricity and trust, that are far too easy to break⌠and how our most difficult moments are often when we discover the only path forward is healing not just ourselves but the world.