Paradise isn't a gift. It's a debt. And it's coming due. When a plane crash leaves them stranded on a wild, uncharted island, the scars they tried to bury come roaring back to the surface. Kriia lies broken and fevered, her blood staining the jungle floor. Meeko refuses to leave her side. Remi spirals under the weight of what still haunts him. And Vaelyn Hawthorne—ghost, traitor, myth—returns with a smirk and secrets stitched behind his teeth. But it's Rexar Fang who fractures first. The hunger he's fought his whole life is no longer silent. It claws at him, consuming everything in its path. When it finally breaks him, the group must make a sacrifice they were never prepared to make—one that will haunt them long after rescue. This is not survival. It's surrender. It's reckoning. It's what happens after you've already lost too much—and still keep losing. The Price of Paradise peels Rexar open, nerve by nerve, memory by memory. It's a story of love warped by hunger, loyalty tested by blood, and the brutal question at the heart of every survivor: What are you willing to destroy to save the ones you love?