Reading is expensive these days. If a year ago there was a plethora of free e-books on the net, now you have to buy them, and not cheaply. These are the consequences of the fight against piracy, which, on the one hand, is good for business, and on the other, bad for the population. I recently found the alphanovel site https://alphanovel.io/novels/billionaire/the-trap-of-ace-by-eva-zahan and there is a lot of literature there. You can still read books for free.