THE GILDED CAGE OF SAINT MARINA: She thought it was a prison. He knew his kingdom.

The Gilded Cage of Saint MarinaI was the daughter of a dynasty. Now, I'm the interest on a debt I didn't know we owed.My father didn't just lose our fortune; he lost his soul. And to save what was left, he sold me to the one man the world whispers about in terrified breaths.Julian Vane.He is the shadow in the high-rises, a predator in a bespoke suit with a heart made of cold steel and ancient secrets. He didn't buy me for my company. He bought me to be a bird in his high-tech fortress-a gilded cage where the cameras never blink and the walls are built of obsidian and neon.He tells me I'm safe. He tells me I'm his. But Julian doesn't want my heart. He wants my absolute surrender.As the city outside burns with the fires of a syndicate war, the air inside the Saint Marina estate grows thick with a different kind of danger. A hunger that blurs the line between captor and protector. A dark obsession that makes me wonder if the monster who bought me is the only one who can truly set me free.In a world of blood-vows and gilded ruins, I have to decide: Do I break the bars of my cage... or do I help him burn the world down from inside it?