The Score: Every Choice Comes With a Price

Every choice has a consequence. Some become debts. Others become wounds that money can never repay.

Maya Cole thought uncovering the truth would finally bring peace to her family.

She was wrong.

When a forgotten family trust, an unpaid promise, and millions in surviving assets come to light, the Cole family is forced to confront a past they believed had already been buried. Adrian and Michael discover that money once meant for them was used to save their father’s failing company. But the deeper investigation reveals something even more damaging: Jonathan Vale, a trusted family friend, was promised repayment and participation before the Cole family ever benefited.

That promise was never fully honored.

Now Jonathan’s brother, Richard, wants justice.

At first, his demand seems simple: repay what was owed.

But as old documents surface, hidden agreements are exposed, and decades of financial decisions are traced through the family’s wealth, the argument stops being about money.

It becomes about who suffered more.

Who deserves more.

Who should lose.

And what would finally make everything even.

As Richard’s pursuit of restitution begins to turn into revenge, Michael starts measuring his worth through inheritance, Adrian struggles with the belief that accountability means sacrificing everything, Evelyn is forced to admit how far she went to protect her family, and Celia must face the consequences of decisions she once justified as necessary for survival.

Caught in the middle, Maya becomes determined to keep everyone from falling apart.

But her obsession with fairness soon reveals a dangerous truth of its own:

Sometimes trying to control the outcome is just another way of refusing to let other people choose for themselves.

While working on a university restoration project, Maya begins to understand what her family cannot: rebuilding does not mean returning everything to the way it was before.

Some losses cannot be restored.

Some wounds cannot be balanced.

And real accountability is not measured by how much someone suffers.

It is measured by what they choose to repair.

The Score is an emotionally charged family drama about money, betrayal, ambition, justice, forgiveness, and the dangerous need to make pain feel equal.

Because when every wound becomes a debt, someone will always believe they are still owed more.

Book Three of The Price of Choices Series.