​healing Stories

A talented designer must choose between her safe, uncomplicated world and a dangerous man whose heart is as fortified as his home. ​Elara Belladonna, a designer who believes a house should have a soul, is given the opportunity of a lifetime: to renovate the brutalist, oceanfront mansion of the reclusive billionaire, Dante Volpe. From their first meeting, Elara senses Dante is a man of contradictions. His business is cold and precise, but his private world is a sanctuary of old books and vintage jazz, hinting at a hidden soul. ​But as Elara chips away at the mansion's cold facade, she uncovers the chilling truth behind its minimalist design: it's not a home, but a fortress built to protect a man from a world of violence and shadows. When she discovers a secret panic room, a stark, concrete void, she realizes the house isn't just a reflection of Dante's personality-it's a testament to his dangerous reality. ​Torn between the simple, loving man in her life, Leo, and her growing, inexplicable pull toward Dante, Elara must make an impossible choice. Can she save a man who is so afraid of love that he's built his life on the principle that it's a weakness? Or will her desire to bring light into his world lead her down a path of darkness she may never escape? ​This is a story of two opposing worlds colliding, a dangerous want, and a desperate attempt to prove that a house can be more than just a fortress-it can be a home.