BOOK ONE
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This story explores mature and potentially sensitive themes.
He is a musician with a dark past. She is a girl desperate to be seen as an adult.
Their encounter at dawn in an empty park seems like nothing more than chance. Instead, it becomes the beginning of a story where love collides with pain, secrets, and fear.
What starts as a chance meeting quickly turns into a dangerous attachment. Behind romantic nights and songs written in the half-light lie secrets people would kill to protect. Dean belongs to a criminal world that doesn't forgive mistakes. And Lili is hiding the one truth that could destroy everything he thought they were building.
Between them are honesty and lies, light and darkness, hope and a love they were never supposed to have. He is older, more dangerous, and more honest than she expected. She is younger, more vulnerable — and stronger — than he is ready to admit.
When the truth becomes too heavy to carry, love may be the only thing that can save them.
Or destroy them completely.
What the Light Costs is a story of forbidden love, buried pain, and the desperate search for light when you've spent too long believing you belong in the dark.
Their encounter at dawn in an empty park seems like nothing more than chance. Instead, it becomes the beginning of a story where love collides with pain, secrets, and fear.
What starts as a chance meeting quickly turns into a dangerous attachment. Behind romantic nights and songs written in the half-light lie secrets people would kill to protect. Dean belongs to a criminal world that doesn't forgive mistakes. And Lili is hiding the one truth that could destroy everything he thought they were building.
Between them are honesty and lies, light and darkness, hope and a love they were never supposed to have. He is older, more dangerous, and more honest than she expected. She is younger, more vulnerable — and stronger — than he is ready to admit.
When the truth becomes too heavy to carry, love may be the only thing that can save them.
Or destroy them completely.
What the Light Costs is a story of forbidden love, buried pain, and the desperate search for light when you've spent too long believing you belong in the dark.
DARK ROMANCE / ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
THEMES
CONTENT NOTE
TROPES
18+
WHAT THE LIGHT COSTS
Emotional Angst
Protective Hero
Morally Gray Hero
He Falls First
Crime & Danger
Secrets & Lies
Forbidden Love
Age Gap
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CONTENT WARNINGS
Please note that the following list contains minor spoilers
Underage relationship and significant age gap
Sexual content involving a minor
Attempted sexual assault
Drug use and overdose
Alcohol use
Graphic violence and torture
Murder
Kidnapping and captivity
Childhood physical abuse
Parental substance abuse and neglect
Criminal activity
Threats and intimidation
Strong language
Sexual content involving a minor
Attempted sexual assault
Drug use and overdose
Alcohol use
Graphic violence and torture
Murder
Kidnapping and captivity
Childhood physical abuse
Parental substance abuse and neglect
Criminal activity
Threats and intimidation
Strong language