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Privilege makes survival easy—until doing what’s right means watching your world fall apart. Cody Harris is about to learn that difference.

At twenty-four, Cody isn’t trying to be heroic—just stable. After exposing fraud in his family’s business, he walked away with his conscience intact and his future wrecked. Now he’s broke, desperate, and takes the only job he can get: Candela, a direct-selling company that promises empowerment while demanding silence and loyalty in return.

To fix his finances, Cody signs a two-year contract tied to a generous bonus—and a crushing penalty if he quits. What seemed like a lifeline becomes a leash, and Candela’s “family values” begin closing in.

The company rewards his quiet compliance, pushing him into choices that hurt the very people he wants to protect.

Three women force him to reckon with the truth he’s been avoiding:

• Anne: sharp and driven—the only colleague he can really trust.

• Maree: his fiancée, whose calm presence reveals what his silence is costing them both.

• Octavia: unflinching and incisive, refuses to let him look away.

Cody’s not clueless. He’s already made hard choices. But survival has a price, and the deeper he gets, the more he starts to wonder if staying silent is really the same as staying safe.

Wry, tense, and uncomfortably honest,​​​​​​​ Pale Privileges, Dark Roast explores the cost of comfort and the slow, painful process of waking up to the harm we’d rather not see.

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