The Cost of Wanting
This is what happens when wanting someone comes with a price.
Sebastian Crane is thirty-three, obscenely wealthy, relentlessly controlled, and accustomed to knowing exactly what everything costs.
Then he sees Sunny Daze dance.
She’s sweet where he expects practiced seduction. Funny when she isn’t trying to be. And impossible to forget.
What Sebastian doesn’t know is that Sunny is really Sunday Knight—the nineteen-year-old assistant working just down the hall from him at Thornhill Tower.
And Sunday has a problem of her own.
The ridiculously attractive billionaire she’s been developing an increasingly embarrassing crush on is the same man who keeps showing up at her club.
Once they discover who the other really is, attraction becomes something neither of them can conveniently ignore.
So Sebastian does what powerful men do when they encounter a problem they believe money can solve.
He makes an offer.
No relationship. No expectations. No complications.
They are spectacularly wrong.
Because what begins as something carefully negotiated becomes something neither of them knows how to contain. Wanting turns into attachment. Rules become excuses to stay closer. And the man determined to protect Sunday from the imbalance between them may ultimately become the person who hurts her most.
Years later, wanting each other is no longer the problem. Living with what they did about it is.
The Cost of Wanting follows Sebastian and Sunday across three books—from an outrageous proposition and a relationship neither intended to build, through heartbreak, separation, and the much harder question of whether a love story can survive the choices that broke it.
Perfect for readers who crave:
✓ Billionaire × dancer romance with an outrageous proposition
✓ Age-gap obsession with a hero fighting himself every step of the way
✓ A sweet, funny heroine who is young without being helpless
✓ Mutual pining, forbidden attraction, and he wants her far too much energy
✓ A contract that becomes increasingly useless once feelings get involved
✓ Wealth, power imbalance, and complicated moral choices
✓ Heartbreak, separation, and a years-later second chance
✓ Open-door spice with consent-forward intensity
✓ One couple across an emotionally escalating trilogy
The Cost of Wanting is a steamy contemporary romance trilogy about money, power, desire, and what happens when two people discover that knowing the price of something has nothing to do with understanding its value.
