by Katee Robert
First published 2024
Jasmine grew up sheltered, protected, certain of her place in the world. Then one night Jafar burns it all down. He gives her a choice: walk away with nothing but her freedom, or gamble to reclaim what she lost. She gambles. She loses. Now she belongs to him, body and soul, bound by the terms of her own bargain. Jafar is not gentle, but his punishments are exactly what her body craves, and that terrifies her more than captivity does. She tells herself the cage is still a cage no matter how beautiful the bars. She tells herself she feels nothing real for him. Neither claim holds up. Jasmine has to decide whether the freedom she is fighting for is worth destroying the man who has somehow become the center of her world. This 2024 Luxe Collector's Edition includes stained edges, full-color character art, black and white interior illustrations, author annotations, additional scenes, a spicy kink inventory, and more.
Genres: fiction, adult, adult-fiction, erotica, dark-romance, contemporary-romance
Vibes: dark, intense, intimate, morally-complex, passionate, psychological
Tropes: captive-romance, dark-hero, forced-proximity, power-imbalance
Period: 2024
278 pages · Paperback · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Content warnings: abuse, explicit-sexual-content