{"product_id":"this-cost-me-something-nikita-marie-shumaker-9798218927752","title":"This Cost Me Something: Because nothing worth building is free.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis Cost Me Something\u003c\/strong\u003e is a reflective nonfiction book about the quiet costs that accumulate when decisions go unexamined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost people do not set out to make the wrong choices. They do what makes sense with what they know, what they were taught, and what feels survivable in the moment. Responsibilities are handled. Progress is made. Life appears to be working. Somewhere along the way, people begin paying for things they never remember agreeing to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is not about dramatic mistakes or obvious failures. It is about the subtle transactions that shape a life while everything looks fine from the outside. The costs hidden in comfort, silence, delay, and choosing what feels familiar over what is aligned. The energy spent without return. The time absorbed without awareness. The emotional debt that compounds when responsibility quietly replaces consent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRooted in lived experience, reflection, and observation, \u003cem\u003eThis Cost Me Something\u003c\/em\u003e offers language for what many people feel but struggle to name. It explores how being capable, responsible, and well intentioned can still lead to depletion. It examines the patterns that look reasonable in isolation and become overwhelming only when the total finally shows up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a self-help book. It does not offer formulas, steps, or promises of transformation. It does not tell readers what decisions to make or how to fix their lives. Instead, it invites recognition. It asks readers to slow down long enough to notice what they are paying for, why they are paying it, and whether the cost still makes sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with honesty and restraint, this book separates intention from consequence and endurance from alignment. It challenges the idea that exhaustion is simply adulthood and that carrying more is always strength. It reframes awareness as a form of consent and responsibility as something that should be chosen, not assumed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have ever felt tired in a way rest does not fix. If you have ever looked at your life and thought nothing is technically wrong but something still feels heavy. If you have ever delayed a decision because now did not feel like the right time and later arrived with interest, this book was written for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce the receipt becomes visible, choice returns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat changes everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Cost Me Something\u003c\/em\u003e is Book One of the \u003cem\u003eYou Pay Either Way\u003c\/em\u003e series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nikita Marie Shumaker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218927752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nikita Shumaker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Nikita Marie Shumaker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447272288511,"sku":"9798218927752","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0346629f-c64b-44e7-a2fc-5103df21b8ca.jpg?v=1777229998","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-cost-me-something-nikita-marie-shumaker-9798218927752","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}