Jenny Voss built her name arguing that voluntary servitude was a market for the desperate dressed up as a market for the free. She was brilliant at it.
What she didn't yet know was that she was to be one of the desperate. That debt and loneliness can narrow a life until a thing she once condemned starts to look like the only door available.
The Bureau takes the most exceptional women and, over a month, takes them apart. Not to break them. To find out what was really beneath the performance all along — and to sell what remains for more money than most people see in a lifetime.
Jenny goes in certain she understands exactly what will be done to her. She is wrong about that too.
A novel about desire, identity, and the unbearable possibility that the truest version of yourself is the one you would never have chosen — The Price of Surrender refuses to tell you whether what happens to its heroine is the worst thing she could have done, or the first honest thing.
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