Forbidden Pleasures: Secrets & Scandal

"Some cages feel like safety... until you fall in love with your captor."

Leona has spent her life escaping-from homes that felt like prisons, from scars no one sees, from a past that keeps dragging her back. At seventeen, homeless and hunted, she crashes into the life of Marco De Santos-a billionaire with ice in his eyes, secrets in his past, and a twisted need for control.

He takes her in.

At first, it's charity. Then, it's ownership.

Marco is used to women obeying. But Leona isn't like them. She's fire in silk. She disobeys. She challenges. She learns him-in ways that terrify and undo him.

What begins as protection becomes obsession. And when secrets unravel the truth about her parents, about his past, and about the dark connection binding them-everything explodes.

As the world threatens to pull them apart, Leona must decide: will she stay the girl he saved, or become the woman who saves him?

Because pleasure can heal... or destroy.