The House That Forbids Us

When Kaela Moreno is taken from her family restaurant on a bleak November afternoon, she expects death.
Instead, she wakes in the gilded, suffocating world of the Aureline crime syndicate - a house ruled by the cold-spoken Don, Lucien; his volatile heir, Cyrille; the feral enforcer Aldric; and the sadistically honest house doctor, Elias.

Kept as "collateral," Kaela becomes the fragile center of an obsessive power struggle.
Some want to tame her.
Some want to break her.
Some want to claim her.
And one - Victor, the man she loves - will risk everything to infiltrate the estate and drag her back.

But six months inside the Aureline house twists loyalties, warps desire, and erodes who she believed she was.
By the time Victor reaches her, Kaela is no longer just a victim - she's become a piece of the family's dangerous balance, tied to every man in ways that violate, comfort, and consume.

Now trapped in their world, Kaela must navigate affection that wounds, protection that imprisons, and a rising storm of violence that threatens to tear the syndicate apart from the inside.

In a house where every touch has consequences and escape costs blood,
love is the most dangerous crime of all.