THE COST
OF TRUTH
"Love can be sincere and still leave scars."
by K. Hazzle
Available in hard copy, paperback and ebook
Love is rarely as simple as we want it to be.
Some stories ask whether love can survive. The Cost of Truth asks what love should never cost, through first love, heartbreak, betrayal, and the grace it takes to choose truth anyway.
"The siren was still going, close over my head, and the ambulance rocked hard with every turn the driver took too fast on purpose."
"My shoulder was on fire, a deep, specific burn that had nothing to do with the fall, and somewhere underneath the noise I understood that was where the bullet had gone."
"I remember the doors opening into light, into noise, a team already waiting for us at the curb like they'd been told exactly what to expect."
"They took Nicole first. A wall of scrubs closed around her gurney and moved with it, fast, toward a set of double doors that swallowed all of them at once."
"A doctor was already pressing along my shoulder, checking where the bullet had gone in, murmuring something about missing the bone, missing the artery, that I'd been lucky."
"Someone was talking about the operating room. Someone was asking me to count backward. I didn't get far."
— from the Prologue
About K. Hazzle
K. Hazzle believes every person has a story worth understanding. Her novels explore the many forms love can take, the relationships that shape us and the ones that challenge us to become someone new. She believes the most powerful stories are the ones that make readers see themselves before they realize they're reading about someone else.
She writes emotionally driven contemporary fiction centered on love, truth, betrayal, forgiveness, and healing, drawn again and again to the complexities of human relationships. Her characters are imperfect, deeply human, and often faced with the difficult choices that reveal who they truly are.
The Cost of Truth is K. Hazzle's debut novel and the first installment in The Truth Series, with future novels continuing to explore the lives, choices, and consequences that connect its characters. She lives in Georgia with her wife and is currently writing the next installment of the Truth series.
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