Publisher's Synopsis
The Cost of Power
A psychological erotic tragedy by Alejandro Alvarez
Ned Lightman is the kind of man people forget five minutes after meeting.
Polite. Predictable. Safe.
Until the night he opens his laptop and searches for answers to the question no one ever asks out loud:
how to stop being invisible
how to make people respect you
how to stop being so fucking nice
A few days later, The 48 Laws of Power arrives at his door.
He doesn't read it right away.
But once he does, he doesn't stop.
What follows isn't a transformation.
It's an erosion.
Of marriage.
Of softness.
Of the version of himself that used to feel something.
The Cost of Power is a slow-burn descent into emotional silence, sexual control, and the hollow aftermath of finally being seen.
It is not a guide.
It's a warning.
Because power doesn't scream when it leaves you.
It just goes quiet.
