The choice you make is the future you create.
Climate-driven plagues haunt humanity, and itās Regional Director Zuri Hill-Grayās job to keep the clean-energy grid running.
Zuri has the perfect lifeāa beautiful home on the Hillstead, a loving family, and a powerful job keeping the LA Basinās grid humming. If only she didnāt 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 canāt look at her daughter without seeing the half thatās missing. Zuri canāt begin to face her sisterās little daughterāto Ruby, Zuri is the ghost.
Which is why sheās running away to work, again, on the anniversary of her sisterās death.
Then a power engineer walks into Zuriās office and claims someone is stealing energy from Power Island Oneāand theyāve tried to kill her to cover it up. The more Zuri digs, the more itās clear someoneās been tinkering in the shut-down fusion labs. Theyāre going to dangerous lengths to hide it, and itās been happening right under her nose. Which is how Regional Directors lose their jobs.
Zuriās already lost her better halfāshe canāt afford to lose this, too.
You Knew the Price is the second of four tightly-connected novels in a new hopepunk series. Itās about our future, how society lives on invisible things, like electricity and trust, that are far too easy to breakā¦ and how our most difficult moments are often when we discover the only path forward is healing not just ourselves but the world.