Susan Kaye Quinn

You Knew the Price Susan Kaye Quinn

The choice you make is the future you create. Climate-driven plagues haunt humanity, and its Regional Director Zuri Hill-Grays job to keep the clean-energy grid running. Zuri has the perfect life--a beautiful home on the Hillstead, a loving family, and a powerful job keeping the LA Basins grid humming. If only she didnt 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 cant look at her daughter without seeing the half thats missing. Zuri cant begin to face her sisters little daughter--to Ruby, Zuri is the ghost. Which is why shes running away to work, again, on the anniversary of her sisters death. Then a power engineer walks into Zuris office and claims someone is stealing energy from Power Island One--and theyve tried to kill her to cover it up. The more Zuri digs, the more its clear someones been tinkering in the shut-down fusion labs. Theyre going to dangerous lengths to hide it, and its been happening right under her nose. Which is how Regional Directors lose their jobs. Zuris already lost her better half--she cant afford to lose this, too. You Knew the Price is the second of four tightly-connected novels in a new hopepunk series. Its 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.