CAGED IN CRIMSON

He leaned forward, looking at the fragile, flawless line of card dominoes stretching across his desk.

"I am giving her a job. Generosity is a rare luxury from me. If she chooses to betray that generosity, she will do it directly under my nose, and she will pay for the consequences in a way she cannot fathom."

Luciano's fingers hovered over the cards, but he didn't knock them down. He just stared at them. His sick, brilliant mind already tracing out the paths of her life like a puppet master tightening the strings.

•••

"Do your work, stay invisible, and act as though you are a ghost."

That was the only rule Elena had to follow to survive the beautiful, luxurious prison she'd been dragged into.

Elena was supposed to be a ghost in his grand mansion. Instead, she accidentally handed the puppet master his favorite new string.