The Master of the Cage
Behind Stonewick's stone walls, a captor reads aloud to his prisoner. Revenge keeps a schedule. Love does not.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
He built a cage to finish a war. He never planned to be the one who couldn't walk away from it.
Elena Vassari is an architect who designs buildings meant to outlast their creators. Kir Aslanov is the man who takes her—grey-eyed, reserved, and lethal in his stillness. He wants no ransom. He only wants her to read. Inside a leather folder lies fifteen years of evidence regarding the fire that killed his mother and sister, and the man who paid for it: her father.
Inside Stonewick Hall, a grey stone estate above cold waters, nothing is what Elena expected. Her captor keeps a strict schedule and knocks before entering, arriving each evening with a book instead of a threat. Day by day, Elena discovers that walls are the least of what holds her, and the truth revealed inside may be the one thing she cannot leave behind.
Beyond the gates, the world closes in. Her brother Dmitri reaches out in secret, torn between blood and conscience. Viktor Reyes, a broker of cold transactions, offers a way out that serves only himself. Meanwhile, her father, Anton Vassari, has no intention of surrendering the empire he built on ash.
Kir believed fulfilling his revenge would set him free. Instead, with every kept promise, Elena becomes the one person he cannot treat as collateral. Justice and vengeance blur, and the line between them runs straight through the two of them. This story refuses to end when the revenge is done. A house can be a cage, a fortress, or a promise—depending on who holds the key.
If you love captive romance, revenge-driven antiheroes, enemies-to-lovers, slow-burn tension, and a love story that outlasts the war—this is your next read.