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A dark romance of chains, loyalty, and desire that cuts deeper than blood.
Seraphina Harte never chose him.
Bound by a contract meant to erase her father's crushing debts, she's forced into the hands of Kaius Driscoll-the eldest son of the family her father owes everything to. Ruthless. Untouchable. The boy who once turned her childhood into a battlefield... now a man who holds her future in his fist.
Moving into the Driscoll estate isn't temporary. It's forever. The contract ties her to him-body, name, freedom. What begins as a cage becomes a warzone, one where Kaius intends to break her resistance piece by piece until she bends.
But Seraphina isn't the same girl who once flinched under his cruelty. She has fire in her veins and defiance on her tongue-and for every chain he wraps around her, she finds a way to make him burn.
In the gilded halls of the Driscoll estate, loyalty is tested, secrets sharpen into weapons, and desire becomes its own punishment. Enemies turn into something darker, something more dangerous than either of them imagined.
Because in Kaius Driscoll's world, love doesn't come soft. It comes with teeth.
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