"This is business. It's a f\ck or get-f\cked world out there." Millionaire investor, Nicholas Beaucroft, is a man used to getting what he wants. But all he wants is the one thing he could never have... the love of his older stepsister, Justine. Once he idolized her; now his obsession has become warped and depraved, and there is nothing he won't do, and no game he won't play, if it means satisfying his dark passions. Jay Varens was twenty-three when she fled from her screwed up family and their dark web of secrets, lies, and mind games. After eight years, she began to believe she was finally free from their twisted machinations—but Nicholas isn't about to let her go so easily, and when he plunges her back into her own personal gilded hell, Jay's about to learn that all things have a price. Including her own soul.

“You’ve owned me for years—body and soul. I’ve been a slave to your f\cking ghost.”* Justine Varens knows she has a messed-up life. She spent her whole adolescence hiding it beneath a gilded veneer of perfection, but now the shine is coming off. She’s fallen for the one man she shouldn’t—the man with the power to ruin her her younger stepbrother, Nicholas. Nicholas Beaucroft would do anything to make Jay his. She’s the only woman who can bring his wild passions to heel and when they’re together, sparks fly. But it’s not enough that his touch makes her heart beat faster. He wants to possess her entirely, to make her burn forever in his world of darkness. But when old specters rise from their thorny past and history threatens to repeat itself, both Nicholas and Jay have to decide how much of themselves they’re willing to surrender for the sake of their forbidden love . . . and what secrets they might be forced to face when all the shadows fall away. “What a pretty cage it is, she thought. And what a seductive jailer.” This book is a revised and expanded version of a title on Kindle Vella and contains episodes 1-17.