What Love Cost Me: A Collection of Short Stories for Women
Jade Mills, Regina Malone
Love isn’t always loud when it changes.
Sometimes it shifts quietly—through temptation that feels harmless, through desire mistaken for validation, through silence learned long before we knew it had a cost.
This short story collection brings together three emotionally connected stories that explore the moments women rarely talk about but often recognize.
In The Unfaithful Temptation, the line hasn’t been crossed yet—but it’s already been rehearsed.
In Plenty of Flesh, attention becomes a substitute for worth, and being wanted begins to feel like being chosen.
In Our Business, No One’s Business, family silence reveals how endurance is taught, praised, and passed down.
These are not fairy tales or tidy love stories. They are reflections—about loyalty, longing, and the quiet choices that shape who we become in relationships.
Written for women who have loved deeply, questioned privately, and learned that clarity often comes long after the feeling fades, this Valentine collection doesn’t promise perfect endings.
It offers something better.
Understanding.
