“The Price of Freedom” (World Castle Publishing, April 2025) is the adrenaline-fueled final installment in the bestselling “Price of” series from award-winning author Michael C. Bland.

It’s 2047. The rebellion has been crushed. The Agency is reestablishing control.

Rebel leader Dray Quintero languishes in his cell, struggling against his captors' manipulations. His daughter Raven's cries torment him at night. He has doomed them both.

When given an unexpected chance to escape prison, they break out--but they're not safe. No one is. The Agency is still in power. And they're tightening their grip. As dangers mount, Dray is haunted by an impossible dilemma: flee and survive, or gamble his last chance for freedom by taking a stand against impossible odds.

He tried running. He tried fighting. This time, he must try something radically different. Something no one will see coming.

Michael C. Bland is a founding member and the secretary of BookPod, an online book support group. “Elizabeth,” one of his short stories, won Honorable Mention in Writer’s Digest 2015 Popular Fiction Awards contest, and two of the short stories he edited have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

His debut novel, “The Price of Safety,” reached #7 in Amazon’s rankings for Dystopian novels, was longlisted for Best Novel by the Millennium Book Award, and received Finalist awards three times: by the Indie Book Awards for both Science Fiction and Thriller, and by National Indie Excellence Awards for New Fiction. The second installment, “The Price of Rebellion” was named “Best Science Fiction” in the 2022 Indies Today awards, won gold for science fiction from Literary Titan and was a science fiction winner with Book Excellence. The final installment, “The Price of Freedom” is available April 2025.