THE Independently Published The Broken Rose: The Cost of Silence Paperback

Elias Kovacs is a scholarship student at Aurora Academy, an elite school where wealth determines who belongs-and who gets destroyed.He believes hard work can give him a way out of Ironcreek's South District. But the academy's most powerful families have other plans.When a vicious conspiracy turns Elias into an outcast and strips away his future, his reputation, and the girl he loves, he discovers a brutal truth: in a world built on power, playing by the rules only makes you easier to break.To survive, Elias must decide how far he is willing to go-and what kind of man he will become.The Broken Rose: The Cost of Silence is a dark coming-of-age novel about class, power, corruption, betrayal, and the price of survival.