The Gilded Cage

A Dark Sapphic Romance (The Architect & The Artist Trilogy Book 3)

By: Raven Desire

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The world calls it a cult. She calls it a cure.

Maryn Cross has everything: the fame, the fortune, and the woman. Reunited with Severine Ford, she has entered a covenant of absolute, consensual power exchange. The collar around her throat is no longer a secret; it is the anchor that holds her life in place.

But the world outside the penthouse doesn't understand the beauty of the cage.

When an investigative journalist exposes Severine’s controversial methods in a scathing article, the glass house shatters. The headlines scream "Brainwashing." The District Attorney threatens prison. The art world demands Maryn denounce her "captor" to save her career.

Fleeing to a secluded safe house in the Hudson Valley, the isolation turns their dynamic into a pressure cooker. As the legal walls close in, Severine prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice: pleading guilty to a crime she didn't commit to set Maryn "free."

But Maryn is done being the victim.

To save the woman who saved her, Maryn must do the one thing the Architect never taught her: she must walk onto the global stage, face the cameras, and scream the truth loud enough to drown out the noise.

Themes: Us Against the World, Forced Proximity, Scandal, Public Claiming, Submissive Strength.